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Village Quotes

Most Famous Village Quotes of All Time!

A village can be a training ground for bigger responsibility, a quiet backdrop for a joke about nothing happening, or the setting for a childhood with far fewer options than city life offered. This collection holds all three moods, echoing themes found in our Community quotes.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Quotes by Adolph Green

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

Quotes by Adam Rapp

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.

Quotes by Adam Derek Scott

I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

Quotes by Ada Yonath

Community Quotes

In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn't have a choice of whether to go to middle school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in that village.

Quotes by Zhou Qunfei

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by...

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.

Quotes by Yves Chauvin

Emotion Quotes

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

Quotes by Yuan T. Lee

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

Quotes by Yochai Benkler

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

Quotes by Yannick Noah

The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.

Quotes by Wylie Dufresne

I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in...

Quotes by Wolfgang Paul

Identity Quotes

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

Quotes by Wladyslaw Reymont

'Call Me by Your Name' does not have a political agenda. It is not a 'cause' film. It is a simple and beautifully shot story about a same-sex relationship that exists in a very tiny Italian village.

Quotes by Wilson Cruz

Where I live is about an hour and a half West of London. I live in the countryside... It's a classic little village, and it's idyllic in a lot of ways.

Quotes by William Moseley

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I...

Quotes by William Jackson

Simplicity Quotes

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

Quotes by Weegee

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of 'village' is this collection about?
It covers a few different meanings - a literal small settlement someone grew up in, the idea of local governance as a starting point, and a well-known city neighborhood that turns out to be quieter than its reputation suggests.
Why do people search for village quotes?
A village often stands in for simpler, close-knit living, and readers come here for lines that capture that feeling of Simplicity or small-scale Community life.
One quote describes girls in a village not having a choice about school and marrying young - what's that about?
It reflects on how limited a person's options could be growing up in a small village, where expectations often decided a girl's path before she got a real say in her own education.
Is there anything here about leadership or governance?
Yes - one quote makes the point that someone who can manage a village well is on their way to managing a township or county, treating local leadership as the training ground for bigger responsibility.
How can these village quotes be used?
They work well for captions about hometown pride, reflections on where you grew up, or posts touching on Identity tied to a specific place.

For some, growing up in a small village meant an early path toward marriage rather than school, a reality worth remembering alongside the more romantic images of village life. Explore how place shapes who we become in our Identity collection.