Famous quotes containing the words village, people and/or perform:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it you will catch their judgments, such as they are.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“For Afro-Americans, it could be argued that every year theyve spent in this country since they arrived in chains to perform forced labor has been 1984.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
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