Village Voice

Famous quotes containing the words village and/or voice:

    I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at
    rest.
    There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
    oppressor.
    Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 17–18)