Famous quotes containing the words deserted and/or village:
““Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 6:31.
Jesus to the disciples.
“Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)