Village Quotes - Page 2

• Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Crumbling, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

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• It takes only one child to raze a village.

  Florence King

  Children

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• Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

  Iqbal Quadir

  Office, Poverty, Modern

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• Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

  Patrick McGoohan

  People, Different, May

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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• Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

  Jim Butcher

  Idiot, Somewhere Out There, Deprived

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.1075, Penguin

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• Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Bread, Return

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

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• We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Dust, Tree

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• You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Motivation, Exercise

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• I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Trying, Way, Cameras

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• Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, People, Television

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• Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

  Charles Handy

  Character, Names, Personality

  "Gods of Management: The Changing Work of Organisations". Book by Charles Handy, 2011.

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• I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Vision, World, Boundaries

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

  Ernest Poole

  Real, Russia, Done

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• As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Honey, Bees

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• Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Village Life, Forests, Wilderness

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.414, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
  Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

  John McCrae

  Rain, Bird, Restless

  John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.30, Dundurn

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• I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

  Robin Quivers

  Persons

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• In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

  Robert Peel

  People, Democracy, Calling

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• I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

  Katy Perry

  Who I Am, It Takes A Village

  "Five Surprises From Katy Perry's 'Vanity Fair' Interview". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Car, Railroads

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Civilization, Factories

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani (1970). “Modern V. Ancient Civilization”, Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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• There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

  Victor Hugo

  Teacher, Atheist, Religion

  "The History of a Crime". Book by Victor Hugo, 1877.

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