In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my h...
It takes a village to raise a child.
There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village,...
One of the most inefficient utopias I have ever seen was that of a humble Zapatista village in the mountains of Southeastern Mexico. I kid you not, the entire village sits down and takes days to make a single decision! Everyone gets a chance to hear ...
Then there was the church and the villagers on the sidewalks, the red geraniums on the graves in the cemetery, Perez fainting (he crumpled over like a rag doll), the blood-red earth spilling over Maman's casket, the white flesh of the roots mixed in ...
Arif: Would you mind if I turned on on the music? Old Villager: What kind of music? I don't listen to foreign music! How can I be sure that ain't swearing at my mother! Arif: How old is your mother? Old Villager: She is still alive, 93 by now. Arif: ...
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution.
You will be an attraction for the people of this village,” Señor Castillo
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
It is always the village women who drive these things.
But that which is called a Flower by any other name would still be as trusting and they were not to change her. In fact, she grew only more Hothouse-gorgeous as the bitterness poured down and off and around her and flooded the town, fertilizing crops...
Bunny: [to Private Taylor] Fucking pussy, man. He's laughing at you. That's the way the gook laughs. [to Vietnamese villager] Bunny: Yeah, sure you are. You're real sorry, ain't you? You're just crying your little hearts out about Sandy and Sal and M...
