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Letter "V" » village
«I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
(Writer)
| Keywords:
asleep, ships, Swans, The Swan, The Village, tyre, 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.»
«My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
Chance,
Country,
Giving,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
influential, inheritance, Land of Opportunity, My Country, owes, schooling, village
«I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome»
«I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.»
«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.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Culture,
Theater
| Keywords:
inward, probable, theater, village
«India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
Arabs, Buddha, communities, embodied, embodies, embodying, Europe, India, languages, Sanskrit, self government, the Buddha, village
«In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
graveyard, marking, spire, spires, The Dial, The Village, village
«I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, circumstance, distinguished, epaulet, epaulets, hoe, hoed, hoeing, shoulder, sparrow, Sparrows, The Sparrow, village, worn
«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.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
basic principle, chile, despondent, health care, instruct, village
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