#villages

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#archeological #digging #digs #experience #go

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. ↗

— Lisa See

#behind #call #china #contests #curtains

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. ↗

— Gavrilo Princip

#happening #i #i am #know #nothing

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support. ↗

— Ian Smith

#freedom #only #poor #so-called #support

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fashionable #longer #masks #new #new york

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#china #earnings #expanse #geographic #going

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#african #drum #first #go #grew

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this? ↗

— Imran Khan

#children #civilised #did #doing #eliminate

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#built #easy #easy access #exchange #forget

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#care #clock #each #i #lived