Quotes About Village

There is no surer sign of mischief in Africa than these trumpery charges of bewitching houses by placing things on them: some such over-strained accusation is generally set in the front rank when other difficulties are to come: drunkenness is pretty much the same thing in all parts of the world, and gathers misery around it as easily in an African village as in an English city. Had

The pugnacious spirit is one of the necessities of life. When people have little or none of it, they are subjected to indignity and loss. My own men walk into houses where we pass the nights without asking any leave, and steal cassava without shame. I have to threaten and thrash to keep them honest, while if we are at a village where the natives are a little pugnacious they are as meek as sucking doves. The

You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.

3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

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Like a town that slowly takes shape on the curve of a river, these experiences accumulated into a village of values, assumptions, and expectations about what it means to be "good" or "competent.

From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.

THE 4.15 FROM VICTORIA TO Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which was the sole communication between the village and the outside world had gone.

There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown.

we had evolved to grub around within a few kilometres of the same village, in the same time zone, under the same fixed stars.

The river of my village doesn't make you think about anything. When you're at its bank you're only at its bank.

The Tejo runs down from Spain And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal. Everybody knows that. But not many people know the river of my village And where it comes from And where it's going. And so, because it belongs to less people, The river of my village is freer and greater.

From my village I see as much in the Universe as you can see from earth. So my village is as big as any other land Because I'm the size of what I see, Not the size of my height.

At the time of the events I am about to relate, this already good-sized village was also fortified, which conferred upon it the honor of a commander in residence, and the benefit of a permanent garrison of Spanish soldiers, who taught modesty to the girls and women of the town, gave an occasional tap on the back to a husband or father, and, at summer's end, never failed to spread out into the vineyards to thin the grapes and relieve the peasants of the trouble of harvesting them.

Fra Cristoforo crossed the village, ascended a winding path, and came to a small clearing in front of the palace. The door was closed, a sign that the master was dining and did not wish to be disturbed.

In my village where I'm from, there's still not running water everywhere. People are still struggling to get clean water.

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.