I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do.
Jerry Della Femina
FoodWarPeopleMeThoughtVillage
There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.
Kathleen Rubins
SpaceResearchDoingVillageWorking
It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.
Meghan Daum
ChildMomVillageNeedTakeMay
So often at home in the West Village, I'm like, 'Why aren't I allowed a horse?' I would keep a horse in a stable in my apartment, and I would fit him with rubber shoes, and we'd just roll him out. If I needed to go to a meeting somewhere, I'd just get on my horse and go across town.
Cary Fukunaga
HomeShoesHorseMeetingGoVillage
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
Michael Ignatieff
PoliticsPoliticalVillageAuthority
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Daniel H. Hill
GoodBusinessConversationVillage
When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.
Steve Buscemi
WorkDailyCourageLateVillageUp
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao
PeopleVillageRunWellAbleCounty
One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.
Sholom Aleichem
LiveBusinessAloneSearchVillage
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
WomanSmallFeelYouVillageLike
So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.
Robin Quivers
ChangeTimeStartYouVillage
As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
Pankaj Mishra
MenVillageYoungLeavingSeeBig
When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.
Roshni Nadar
HopeGreatVillageLiftBecomeGet
I'll be prime minister and a mum, and Clarke will be 'first man of fishing' and stay-at-home dad. I think it's fair to say that this will be a wee one that a village will raise, but we couldn't be more excited.
Jacinda Ardern
FishingManThinkVillageSayWill
When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.
Mohamed Salah
MyselfChanceBackGoVillageWhere
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
Irina Shayk
HeartNew YorkNewVillageNever
Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.
Luke Treadaway
Growing UpSmallRulesVillageUp
'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.
Candace Camp
SmallBookLegendChurchVillage
I live in a cottage and volunteer in the village shop.
Lisanne Falk
LiveVillageVolunteerCottageShop
I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.
Joseph Fiennes
ChildMeThinkVillageMoreOut
I was a real East Village girl.
Drea De Matteo
GirlVillageRealEastEast Village
I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.
Chris Pavone
HomeLiveNew YorkCityNewVillage
I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?
Bobby Lee
MountainI AmWorldHandsomeVillage
During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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