“ Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub. ”
- John Hillaby- Copy
“ I think this is a good example of the township taking a proactive stance rather than reaction,... I think this is an excellent example of what we should be doing to take the township into the future. ”
- Perry Miller- Copy
“ The Space Age is shrinking distances between us on the planet and in the universe with irreversible momentum, bringing us ever closer to each other. We will eventually live in the intimacy of a village. A village lives by the harmonious cooperation of its people — to share in the digging of a well or the reaping of a harvest or the education of its children… ”
- Burgess Meredith- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Krzysztof Kieslowski- Copy
“ Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
“ Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ”
- Elsa Maxwell- Copy
“ The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki- Copy
“ I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. ”
- Laurence Olivier- Copy
“ He wants full control of the town. He wants to micromanage everything. ”
- Robert Anderson- Copy
“ The shades of night were falling fast, As though an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device,. ”
- Excelsior- Copy
“ Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
“ The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
“ Thank you for your wonderful Pueblo hospitality,... I don't care. I love the '80s! ”
- Eddie Money- Copy
“ To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
“ The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
“ If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
“ Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. ”
- Nostradamus- Copy
“ Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. ”
- Denis E. Brogan- Copy
“ I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. ”
- Julius Caesar- Copy
“ Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows I seem again to see our Indian village, with smoke curling upward from the earth lodges, and in the river's roar I hear the yells of warriors, and the laughter of little children as of old… ”
- Waheenee- Copy
“ At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. ”
- Chief Seattle- Copy
“ Somebody will come from Village X and then they'll send for the brother and then they'll send for the sister and then they'll send for the brother-in-law and then they'll send for the wife of the brother-in-law. Everybody sharing a very small house or an apartment, working in shifts and sending money back to the family. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
“ Two of them, seated on a mat in the open verandah, were engaged sewing dresses, for a festival was going to take place a few days hence at Balcarem, a village eight miles distant from Murucupi, and they intended to be present to hear mass and show their finery. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
“ Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield. ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
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