Quotes tagged ‘It Takes A Village’

(6 total)

“It takes a village to raise a kid. I'm looking for that village.”

“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.”

— Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, Mitchell Garabedian, Stanley Tucci, imdb.com

“This guy I once knew said that in order to be an artist, you couldn't be held back by things. Things like friends or family. I don't know. The reason I bring this up now is because it's it's helped me realize something. That guy was one hundred percent wrong. It's because of my friends and my family…”

— Ben York Jones, Michael Mohan, Luke O’Neil, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, imdb.com

“This has always been the role of the black mother in the community. We watch the kids. All of them. This is that ‘village’ that we hear so much about but that has somehow been forgotten.”

— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com

“True leadership often happens with the smallest acts, in the most unexpected places, by the most unlikely individuals.”

— Michelle Obama, barackobama.com

“I am a firm believer that you don’t do anything significant by yourself.”

— Barack Obama, vanityfair.com