“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.” HappensWould BeUsedBehindsFeetParticularTownsChinaScreensVillageContestsCurtainsBeauty Contest Author:Lisa See
“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.” LooksLightFeetFlowerSpringTradeFingersDeeperExpectedHillsDawnPrintVillageTwilightSunriseSpidersPurpleAprilAlteredSpringtimeLawnsSlopesFlippant Book:The Works of Emily Dickinson Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson
“I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.” ArtistFeetGrewGrew UpSouthVillageSculptorsIdyllic Author:Donald Sinden
“A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.” HumorFunnyThreeFireFeetCaughtFlamesVillageMiniatures Author:Bob Monkhouse
“We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.” ThinkingWorldShouldSaidTwoBigsBeautifulKnownFeetGardenSticksVillageFeet On The GroundGlobal Village Author:Yann Martel
“Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.” IfsFeelsDoeTwoHandsSeemsPrinciplesProgressFeetBuddhismIdealsWesternContradictionVillageCavesOpposing Author:Quentin S. Crisp