Famous quotes containing the words villages of, villages and/or oriole:
“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”
—W.E. (William Ewart)
“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.”
—Chinese proverb.