Village Quotes - Page 21

• When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Dog, Elephants, Bark

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• The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

  James Young

  Navy, Use, Landfills

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• 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.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Flower, Twilight

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit.
  LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her.
  HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Girl, Country, Mean

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• India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Europe, India, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

  Frances E. Willard

  Heart, Two, Support

  Frances E. Willard (2016). “Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.695, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, India, Littles

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• In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Thinking, Phones

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• In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mountain, Forests, Sometimes

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• I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

  Ishmael Beah

  Boys, Imagination, Age

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• If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Republic, Lasts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.150, Hackett Publishing

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• I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Girl, Country

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• It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

  Bill Vaughan

  Catholic Religion, People, Doubt

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• You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.

  Stephen Leacock

  Jail, Childhood, Able

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Needs, Want, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

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• Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Process, Reverse

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Skeletons, Naked

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.122, A&C Black

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• The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Snakes, Realizing, Economy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Goes On, Want, Months

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• The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Messages, Penetrate, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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• If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Want, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.384, Rajpal & Sons

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• 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

  Rome, Paris, Doe

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• I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

  Maya Beiser

  Father, Sound, Tribes

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