Top 1200 Small Villages Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

Just small things are going to hopefully lead to a bigger surplus in the end. Obviously, you might not see it every single game, every single detail, but those small things and those small details add up so much, and that's what creates winning.

Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

From the most remote of villages to the largest metropolitan cities, we, as a species, have the same internal need to be seen, heard, and validated. It is the most human of traits that I have witnessed and experienced the world over.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

The Sudanese army has retaken some towns. The people there are all living in caves because the Sudanese army is shelling their villages.

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.

Geographically, Afghanistan is a good place for the terrorists, because it's surrounded by mountains, and there are lots of villages inside mountains, so it's easy for them to hide themselves, or to recruit the people. Whatever they want to do they will do.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.