(191 quotes found)
“I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome”
Julius Caesar
“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
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”
Victor Hugo
“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
“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
“I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.”
“We are tightening the noose on the villages.”
Blagoja Markovski
“When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she kept with it, she could win a medal. I'm so proud of her, that really motivated me.”
Sanya Richards
