Village Quotes - Page 22

• I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate them.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Play, Appreciate

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• Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Ocean, Islands, Our World

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• I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

  Drew Hayden Taylor

  Thinking, Lakes, Impact

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Organization, Form

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi”

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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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• A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knows

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• Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Healthy, Economy, Alpha And Omega

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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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• Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone to get opportunities wherever they are staying. Aatma gaav ki ho aur suvidha sheher ki ho, this is what we believe.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, Opportunity, India

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• Gujarat's e-governance projects have been recognized in the country and abroad. To give a few examples- Gujarat has the largest Wide Area Network in the Asia Pacific. It is the first State to provide broadband connectivity in all schools and villages. It makes maximum use of video-conferencing including trial of the prisoners. Gujarat's ICT based Grievance Redressal System called SWAGAT has got the United Nation's Public Service Award. In addition, it has received eleven national awards for our various e-services.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, School, Awards

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• There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, India, Want

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• The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

  Paul Goodman

  Travel, Space, Land

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, School, Home

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• I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

  Wyclef Jean

  Song, Years, Sound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

  Andrew Davies

  Growing Up, Teenager, Drinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides

  Christopher Flavin

  Hard Times, Men, Wife

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• For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

  Carl Sagan

  Song, Cities, Childhood

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Pain, Years, Giving

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• Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Some of the nations of Europe who believe in the one wife system have actually forbidden a plurality of wives by their laws; and the consequences are that the whole country among them is overrun with the most abominable practices: adulteries and unlawful connections through all their villages, towns, cities, and country places to a most fearful extent.

  Orson Pratt

  Country, Believe, Europe

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• The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"

  J. B. Bernstein

  Military, Kids, Athlete

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• I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was '65, I don't know. Somebody showed me a copy of the "East Village Other", which was an underground newspaper. And... it had comics in it! And they weren't superhero comics.

  Trina Robbins

  Art, Drawing, Superhero

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I saw the comics in the East Village Other, and they weren't superhero comics, they were all about hippies and all about things hippies were interested in. And there was one page in particular, a full page strip called "Gentle's Trip Out" signed "Panzika", and it was totally, totally psychedelic, and really, I don't know if it made any sense at all but it looked so great, and I thought, "This is what I want to do, this is my big influence," and it was.

  Trina Robbins

  Hippie, Superhero, East

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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