Village Land

Famous quotes containing the words village land, village and/or land:

    “There were those young men,
    those village lands
    and that youthfulness of mine.
    People tell it
    like a tale
    that I must listen to.”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “You must not eat with it anything leavened. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it -the bread of affliction -because you came out of the land of Egypt in great haste, so that all the days of your life you may remember the day of your departure from the land of Egypt.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:3.