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.)

    “With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    “croppers rotting shacks
    with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
    where sentiment and hatred still held sway
    and only bitter land was washed away.”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)