264 Village Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played. Lou Reed

I had to either get better or leave the field. I couldn't go back to my village as a failure. The only thing that occurred to me was that I would work hard and get better next year. I feel that my love for the craft has got me this far, and this love is still there. Manoj Bajpayee

Work Love Me Failure Love Is Work Hard Better Year Field Back Would Only Had Feel Got Occurred Still Leave Go Get Craft The Only Thing Either Far Next Hard Next Year Village Thing

The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast. Margaret Stohl

Logical Big Ocean New Things Too Visual Brought Mystical New Moss Islands Tradition Historical Ships Stopped Where Place Spanish Iconic Coast Village Villages Homes Things

Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.' Marie Brenner

Work Pride Job Way India Wedding He Put Hotel Announcement Call Tiger Boy His His Way Up Office Gets Center Worked Working Who Even Village Now

My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat. Marjorie Gubelmann

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

Life Work Time Space London My Time Divide Open Had Open Space Feel Between Particularly Chelsea Still Same Sixties Which Social Mud Social Life Village Swinging

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea. Michael Smith

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Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks. Michael Specter

People First Out Seemingly Constructed Economic Area Factories Had Tower Until Blocks Been Fishing Up Often Tiny China Special Village Appeared Suddenly Nowhere Eleven Million Million People Zone

If you're an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don't forget, I'm going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through? Mike Rogers

Saying Loyalty You Somewhere Leader Down Back Security Small Through Small Town Smaller Soon Footprint Town Know Taliban Around Real Go Forget Afghan Getting Going Your Who Village

My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there. Mildred Dresselhaus

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It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by. To come away to a new challenge, a new level, knowing that I was going to have to step up massively - not having those people around me was a test. Millie Bright

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I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again. Misty May-Treanor

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. Mo Ibrahim

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When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from. Mohamed Salah

Myself Back Remind Always Came Go Where Village Chance

I come from a village, Changa Bangyaal. It is a very beautiful village. I am from a poor family. Right from the beginning, I always had a great deal of love for cricket. Mohammad Amir

Love Beautiful Great Family Great Deal Beginning Cricket Had Come Deal Always Am Very Poor Village Right

Why will I not give free service to my customers to get them used to mobile Internet, and to get every small town and village to use it? Everybody does promotions. In the internet world, free is normal. Mukesh Ambani

It was my dream to have a beauty parlour in our village and to live near my family in Sinjar. Nadia Murad

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I come from a small village called Murud Janjira near Alibaug. I started doing theatre right from school days and later joined the Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, after which I joined an advertising agency. Nana Patekar

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

Life War People Farm Earthquake Spent Out Photographer City Most His Camps Refugee Famine Want James Flattened Swallowed Places Avoid Professional Village Professional Life Flood Zone

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way. Nancy Pickard

Feeling Same Thing Live Think Everybody Everybody Else Else Way City True New Knowing Prairie Close York Same New York New York City Where Suburb Little Kansas Kansas City Village Thing

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. Nastia Liukin

Saying Time Confidence Training First Picture Before Visa Machine Destiny Out Characters Athlete Seeing Some ATM Had First Time Walked Just Chinese Worked Reason Even Village Olympic

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