Village Quotations | Page 4

It's been a huge inspiration for us and we've been walking tall around the athletes' village over the last couple of days.

It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.

Every block of the city is a quintessential definition of the highly diversified New York food cultue. Each area is divided as a small village of its own unique flavors and history. The variety of cuisine that the city provides is almost infinite. Starting from Tribeca, Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Lower East Side, Meat Packing district, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Gramecy Park, Theater, Lincoln Center, Upper East Side, Harlem, The Bronx, Brooklyn to Queens; New York City will never fail to surprise us with its treasure of cuisines. The answer is in the pride New Yorkers take in saying "ONLY IN NEW YORK

That is a very interesting position and I have learned to work with the leaders of our village and to be exposed to what is going on with issues and people involved.

That little village that's raided in the film, it's just lost in the desert. There's nothing there. We came in and turned it into a big operation, like an al-Qaida training camp in the middle of the desert.

The base village concept promotes the idea of warm pillows and the greater the number of warm pillows, the greater number of lift tickets sold.

The African proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child' -- that speaks volumes about where the kids I grew up with are today.

That is the most important step for us to take before moving on to other needs. It's not just for the visitors. It's important to remember that we live here, too. We should want to go out to the village to eat, to shop and to work.

It's ironic that Hillary's press secretary would call for more government intrusion into our lives while bashing my book. Who needs parents when you've got bureaucrats in the Department of Education taking care of our kids? Evidently Hillary thinks it takes a village to teach a child to read!

Oh, sir, sir, there are more tricks done in the village than make a noise - saving her ladyship's presence.

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

It will limit the negative impacts that a development could bring to the community, ... It's a pathway to orderly development, and the village is calling the shots.

Around 30 families have moved to a neighboring village and we are now going to evacuate some 1,200 people.

The campaign season prior to the April 2005 election was somewhat volatile, with the University Village Housing project as the dominate point of the contention. I feel that my position against the proposal was validated by the election results.

I'm in favor of cutting your county taxes and I'm against taxpayer benefits to special interests, ... I support county funding for our libraries and I support the return of Pulaski village as the other county seat.

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

I loved what she said about Cindy Sheehan. ... I think it's important that she exposed the oil companies' destruction of our planet and how they hire the military to kill village people where they are raping the resources and the people in Nigeria. And she's exposing the oil spills ... and how the Pentagon tried to hide the truth about atomic bombs (and paid a New York Times reporter) to write stories that covered up the radiation sickness,

In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.

In 1968 I organized the Hippie Bus Tour to Queens as a satirical cultural exchange tour and I attempted to burn down a Vietnamese Village Nativity I erected in Central Park to protest the war in Vietnam.

In an interesting way, the operation becomes almost a metaphor for hope and optimism. A little child can have a new face with a smile restored, and suddenly his mother's smile is restored and his father's and the outer family's... and they bring him back to the village and the village is delighted... The ripples and effects of this are fantastic.

I moved into a larger apartment in the Village and I actually have the possibility of having people over for dinner again, so I'm very excited.

I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could not actually invent.

I had the archetypal French bucolic upbringing, in a peasant village in deepest Burgundy.

If the world were a village of 100 people, ... there would be 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, eight people from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, five from the U.S.A. and Canada, and one from Australia or New Zealand.

In the future, it will be a vibrant village center where people will live, work and play.

Instruct the women of the village in the basic principles of child health,chile-care and child training.When health fails, people become despondent and even desperate.

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.

I really enjoyed the village because I think it was an excellent opportunity to see the culture and everything,

In theory, meeting those standards should help you run the village more effectively. It would allow you to align total revenue with the true costs associated with providing services, including depreciation on buildings, streets, and curb and gutters.

In the area of Hancock County, Mississippi, where the Incident Management Team was assigned, I saw areas of total annihilation. I saw a village where the town hall, bank, church, and library were completely lifted away, with nothing remaining,

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

Cameron's people have already started booking the village halls, ... Our people on the ground in the constituencies have already had invitations for him to come and speak. It seems to be a panic move. We will be going out to speak to the membership as well, but we will do it with a bit more style.

Before they could complete a sale to another private company, or even to other investors, the village of Homer Glen would be given the opportunity to buy it for that same price.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

By allowing kids the opportunity to encounter situations common to everyday living, such as personal banking or going to the store, JA Enterprise Village brings what they learn in the classroom to life. Students will learn what it takes to run a business and the relationship between business and consumer, valuable experiences that they will use in the real world.

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

It takes only one child to raze a village.

Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

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

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

If I can get an out with one or two pitches and use my sinker or my cutter, I'm better off, ... I stopped being a village boy, thinking that I can throw any stone, any rock through a wall, and started thinking about being a guy that could last longer, to take some off my fastball and not to depend only on throwing hard.

If I can get an out with one or two pitches and use my sinker or cutter, I'm better off, ... I stopped being a village boy, thinking that I can throw any stone, any rock through a wall, and started thinking about being a guy that could last longer, to take some off my fastball and not to depend only on throwing hard. Mixing movement on my fastball has made me a more complete pitcher.

I can't answer that question, because this happened so fast. I was sitting at the village playing cards this morning and now I'm standing here talking to (the media). It's crazy.

I definitely have very fond memories of Athens for the most part. Just remembering the times spent with the team in the village and everybody working for that goal of the team medal. And also my individual performances, I remember those very fondly as well just because they're some of the greatest accomplishments I've had in my life.

I come from a very small village with only small mountains and for us to get a medal in downhill was not even a dream three years ago.

I feel blessed by the honor. I've worked hard for a lot of years, but everyone works hard for a lot of years. Every single person that walks around the village has put in time, effort, sweat and tears, and their family has sacrificed for them. You always dream it would come together and it has. I don't even know if it has hit me yet, but it's a great experience, something I'll remember forever.

Howl has certainly proved that the East Village sense of community has survived intact,

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded to me very much like the tradition of a hired man in any world-class poem. That's what I was, a hired man. I was working for a collective farm.

We all live in a little Village,

Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.

Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing.

The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.

The jury is still out. You don't necessarily run the village as a business. You're not here to make a profit or earn a rate of return. You're here to provide services and take care of cash flow as necessary.

This hearing was all about preventing this casino from going to the Village of Rosemont.

This is a key development property, and whatever is built will have to have a village look.

The houses were all abandoned buildings used by smugglers and people traffickers for shelter, the rest of the village remains intact.

The focus of this operation is actually to engage the local population, including the village elders, and speak with them about the fact that we will be patrolling more regularly in the area. Show them that we mean them no harm.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

The increasing popularity of team events, coupled with some of the most recognizable names in women's golf, promises to make this a world-class event. And what better forum to hold an event like this? The World Golf Village is home to the World Golf Hall of Fame, where nine members of The Legends Tour have been enshrined.

The district was closed after the village informed me there were breaks in the water system and the Health Department said our buildings were unsafe for water production. But they told me (Wednesday) that village water had been tested and passed.

You've got to be careful and diplomatic. If you leave out one village it could backfire on you,

All village ordinances were followed, and the business investors hope to close on several matters this week,

The earthquake made the whole village homeless as house after house collapsed once the ground started to shake. We had to move down in search of shelter, otherwise our survival chances would have been low.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.