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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. -- Bill Gates
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. -- Marshall McLuhan
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 Mbeki
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe. -- Howard Rheingold
I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. -- Gaby Hoffmann
It takes a village to raise a child. -- Hillary Clinton
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. -- Peter Jackson
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. -- Julius Caesar
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. -- Stanley Kubrick
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. -- John Berger
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
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri. -- Parley P. Pratt
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. -- Yannick Noah
Your village just called. They're missing an idiot. -- Russell Lynes
The village is coming back, like it or not. -- David Brin
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe. -- Patrick Chappatte
The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. -- James Wolfensohn
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. -- Philip Treacy
I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows. -- Geraldine Chaplin
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. -- Kirsty Gallacher
Celebrate the birth of a girl child by planting 5 trees in your village. -- Narendra Modi
I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow. -- Olesya Rulin
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village. -- Gina Bellman
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day. -- Henry David Thoreau
So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village. -- Robin Quivers
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times. -- Vic Morrow
Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger. -- Luke Treadaway
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. -- Pete Seeger
You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. -- Tom Peters
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives. -- Deepak Chopra
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
Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans. -- Tecumseh
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line. -- Kapil Sharma
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
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. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it. -- Richard Dawkins
[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe. -- Pitirim Sorokin
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. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner. -- Vanessa Mae
Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. -- Ann Romney
People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina. -- Blake Mycoskie
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. -- Roald Dahl
A village somewhere was missing it's idiot. -- Linda Howard
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. -- Oliver Goldsmith
There is a beautiful village in every country. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village -- Sam Levenson
It takes only one child to raze a village. -- Florence King
Khadi is the sun of the village solar system. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village. -- Richelle Mead
Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs. -- George Armstrong Custer
The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village. -- Hendrik Tennekes
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. -- O. Henry
Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people. -- Lew Hunter
It is always the village women who drive these things. -- Stephen Lewis
This poet is a griot in search of a village. -- Kwame Dawes
In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What do they do for a village idiot when you're here? -- Tanya Huff
Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot. -- Jim Butcher
I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point. -- Steve Young
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. -- Annie Besant
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am. -- Katy Perry
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely. -- Jan Karon
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. -- Goldwin Smith
Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. -- Iqbal Quadir
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. -- Marshall McLuhan
Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England. -- Daniel Defoe
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. -- John Grierson
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town. -- Anton Corbijn
I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock. -- Stephen Graham
Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village. -- Andrea Gibson
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. -- William Shenstone
Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening -- Marshall McLuhan
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts. -- Albert Einstein
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! -- Thomas Hood
I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool. -- Paul McCartney
When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. -- Victor Hugo
I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote. -- Jeremy Irvine
Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away. -- Bob Monkhouse
Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage -- RZA
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities. -- Graham Taylor
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. -- Nancy Spain
The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture. -- Jacob Bronowski
We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe. -- Li Keqiang
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome. -- Julius Caesar
I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore. -- Feist
Thing big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice. -- Agatha Christie
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. -- Jane Austen
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
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You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in. -- Igor Goldkind
You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution. -- Mitchell Joachim
The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ... -- Simone Weil
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village. -- Voltaire
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. -- Diane Abbott
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. -- Muhammad Yunus
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea. -- Dana Gould
I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. -- Emmanuelle Beart
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. -- Gertrude Stein
I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. -- Joseph Conrad
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. -- Henry David Thoreau
A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. -- Robert Peel
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. -- Alice Hoffman
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village. -- Richard J. Foster

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