When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse
FamilyPurposeSmallBornVillage
I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.
Terri Blackstock
LifeGoodWomanStoryThinkVillage
Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
WorkMorningEveningDoingVillage
I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.
Jake Shears
LoveMusicRebelGoVillageHard
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
John Grierson
LifeVillageMoreStrikesAffected
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
George Crook
StrongVillageThroughLocation
I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Robert Quine
JobVoicePlayTaxVillageQuit
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
Carly Simon
SisterSingingLookVillageDresses
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
John Polkinghorne
VillageClassYearsYesWorking
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.
Zebulon Pike
GoodVillageBloodLittleCreek
It is always the village women who drive these things.
Stephen Lewis
WomenDriveVillageAlwaysThings
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.
Walter Ulbricht
WorkYouVillageWantWillMore
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Tom Peters
ChallengeToolsReadyNewVillage
I was born in a village where there had never been a footballer who'd made it in the major championships.
Sadio Mane
BornVillageNeverChampionships
I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.
Roberto Benigni
ParentsMeGiftPovertyVillage
I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
Olesya Rulin
CowVillageUpWellHousesHad
I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.
Mike D
TimeRememberVillageEdgyFirst
The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
Kassie DePaiva
WorkBeautyPeopleYouVillageGet
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.
Minnie Pearl
WomenPoliceHotelTryingVillage
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan
CricketFastVillageLandSpread
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
Lou Reed
CollegeSongVillageRunJazzRadio
I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
Barry Hannah
PeopleGrowing UpBornVillageUp
When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
Jason Wiles
WorkDayRideFakeVillageFirst
Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy hat measuring out a classically proportioned French 75 - something he'd picked up on the Internet, he told me.
Jonathan Miles
HatMeInternetLongVillageSee
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