Village Quotes

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. (Julius Caesar)
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. View quote
Robert Frost
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. (Marshall McLuhan)
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. View quote
Will Durant
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. View quote
Annie Besant
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. View quote
Victor Hugo
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations. View quote
Lakhdar Brahimi
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. View quote
Michael Stipe
I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. (Yancy Butler)
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. View quote
Yannick Noah
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. View quote
Yuan T. Lee
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. View quote
Thabo Mbeki
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? View quote
Kiefer Sutherland