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.)
“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
This Land of Saints, and then as the applause died out,
Of plaster Saints; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)