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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. -- Henry David Thoreau
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life. -- Joyce Banda
Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village. -- Tony Abbott
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection. -- Lisa Unger
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked. -- Roger Hilsman
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages. -- Pankaj Mishra
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. -- Gus Van Sant
The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that. -- Brad Thor
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? -- Kiefer Sutherland
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. -- Nancy Spain
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe. -- Diego Della Valle
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village. -- Michael Palin
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture. -- Alan D. Eames
My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write. -- Pankaj Mishra
I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life. -- Laura Thielen
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. -- Pranab Mukherjee
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. -- Nancy Gibbs
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. -- Christian de Portzamparc
I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. -- Mary Quant
When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see. -- Bono
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. -- Aravind Adiga
I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love him as much as I do. They're there for both of us. I may not have a mate or husband, but I'm definitely not a single parent. -- Jill Scott
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. -- Tom Stoppard
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages. -- Daniel Boulud
In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma. -- Bunker Roy
I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village. -- Terri Blackstock
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. -- John Grierson
I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon.... -- Manasa Rao Saarloos
Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied. -- Indira Gandhi
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself. -- Sherwood Smith
I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began. -- Laurie Lee
Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. -- Ray Davies
I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate. -- Joshua Sasse
I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children. -- Godfrey Hounsfield
The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. -- Tahir Shah

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