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Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners. -- Patrick McGoohan
We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing. -- Gary Hustwit
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
Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene. -- Bunker Roy
"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" -- Kenneth Grahame
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. -- Henry David Thoreau
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. -- Pete Seeger
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. -- James Norman Hall
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. -- Jasmine Guy
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. -- Gavrilo Princip
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started. -- Mohsin Hamid
The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. -- Ian Botham
I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them. -- Muhammad Ali
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. -- Moshe Dayan
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city. -- Sam Childers
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. -- Susan Oliver
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. -- Gustav Klimt
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there. -- Billy Bragg
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. -- Lech Walesa
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. -- Don Young
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. -- Lisa See
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. -- William E. Gladstone
In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages. -- Daniel Boulud
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. -- Winona LaDuke
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this? -- Imran Khan
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. -- Christopher Alexander
It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support. -- Anthony Carmona
The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win. -- Marianne Vos
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink. -- Bill Bryson
The true India resides in its villages -- Charan Singh
The future of India lies in its villages -- Mahatma Gandhi
The soul of India lives in its villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages. -- Narendra Modi
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. -- Ernest Poole
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. -- Alistair Cooke
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. -- Yannick Noah
We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient. -- Bunker Roy
New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. -- James M. Cain
Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs. -- Narendra Modi
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. -- Henning Mankell
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages. -- Ray Kurzweil
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest. -- Dasha Zhukova
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life. -- Nancy Spain
I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages. -- Arthur Ruppin
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. -- Colin Farrell
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. -- Mason Cooley
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so. -- Mahatma Gandhi
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages. -- Narendra Modi
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can... -- Narendra Modi
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them! -- Mahatma Gandhi
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. -- Washington Irving
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. -- Rory Bremner
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us. -- Ed Miliband
We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene. -- Francis Ford Coppola
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives. -- Deepak Chopra
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. -- Nandan Nilekani
Every village should celebrate its birthday & it will end the poison of casteism... and once casteism ends, see how the strength of villages increase! -- Narendra Modi
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
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
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness. -- Voltaire
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. -- Roger Bannister
The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support. -- Ian Smith
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns. -- Abbas Kiarostami
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing -- Gavrilo Princip
In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad. -- Walid Muallem
In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'. -- Walid Muallem
Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle. -- Narendra Modi
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years. -- Narendra Modi
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit... -- Bill Bryson
Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire. -- Renee Montagne
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. -- Boris Yeltsin
People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages. -- Narendra Modi
I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. -- Joanna Trollope
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations. -- Joseph Stalin
The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in the kibbutz, in small towns, in villages. -- Amos Oz
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. -- Banksy
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. -- Ernest Hemingway
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time. -- Sharon Olds
And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded... -- Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums. -- Julie Schumacher
Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base. -- Martin Milner
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers. -- E. F. Schumacher
Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not. -- Narendra Modi
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory! -- Joseph Stalin
Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity. -- Narendra Modi
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth. -- Santha Rama Rau
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest. -- Donald Johanson
The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence. -- D. H. Lawrence
I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village. -- Pankaj Mishra
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. -- Andrea Jung

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