(190 quotes found)
“I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome”
Julius Caesar
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”
Victor Hugo
“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.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”
“I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.”
“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.”
Krzysztof Kieslowski
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”
Lincoln Steffens
“As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably make them a visit. Should they offer us any presents of goods, we will not take them; but should they offer us powder and the tomahawk, we will take the powder and refuse the tomahawk.”
Tecumseh
“The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month”
Paul Theroux
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