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Quotes About Villages

We have demolished the biggest hindrance to the development of Uttar Pradesh - the menace of casteism and dynastic politics. The epicentre of development is now villages, poor, farmers, youth, women, traders, and, in fact, every section of the society.
~ Yogi Adityanath
Since 1960 it has been known that villages preceded the discovery of agriculture.
~ Mircea Eliade
Schlaup nodded to show that he understood. Trolls burn villages too, he said. It's a favourite pastime with bullies all over the world, said the Bard.
~ Nancy Farmer
Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees...
~ Nancy Mitford
Returning home The shepherds found the sweet body Decayed in the thorn-bush. I am a shadow far from sombre villages. God's silence I drank from the spring in the grove. Cold metal enters upon my brow, Spiders seek out my heart. There is a light that goes out in my mouth. At night I found myself on a heath, Stiff with refuse and dust of stars. In the hazel-bush Crystalline angels sounded again.
~ Georg Trakl
To be known as an actor is to be known for your role and lines. But the country knows me for the stance I have taken, for the villages I have adopted, the social work I do, the comfort zone I have left.
~ Prakash Raj
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
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
slavery was part of the furniture of daily life—at that time almost every minister, usually the most important man in town, had one or two. About 8 percent of the inhabitants of the main street of Deerfield, one of the bigger villages in the valley, were African slaves.
~ Charles C. Mann
Early farming villages worldwide were much less authoritarian places than later societies. But the Indians of the eastern seaboard institutionalized their liberty to an unusual extent—the Haudenosaunee especially, but many others, too.
~ Charles C. Mann
In the most direct way, Indian liberty made indigenous villages into competitors for colonists' allegiance. Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members—surrounded by examples of free life—always had the option to vote with their feet.
~ Charles C. Mann
Titles were cheaper than dirt, and the riverlands were full of ruined castles, standing desolate amidst untended fields and burned villages.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!
~ Mary Slessor
Osje?ate ih sve oko sebe, kako no?as pužu prema gradu, kao ogromna pustoš neprijatnog okeana — osuti gredicama bez liš?a i zale?enim jezerima i sitnim selima koja ostaju u sje?anju samo po neobi?nim imenima bojišta iz poluzaboravljenih ratova.
~ Christopher Isherwood
He can't see it. It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry "Monster!" and looked behind him.
~ Laini Taylor
Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.
~ James C. Scott
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
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
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
~ Theodore Harold White
This impulse, never condemned or rebuked by a world that watched by and did nothing, led to the massive expulsion of 750,000 people (half of the region's population), the destruction of more than five hundred villages, and the demolition of a dozen towns in 1948.
~ Noam Chomsky
The villages he'd played in were all around us, bright and leafy in the sunshine, nests of stars in the night sky.
~ Cesare Pavese
Banditi e malaria hanno fatto il paesaggio italiano (borghi e città in luoghi elevati, difendibili e salubri); altri banditi e altra malaria si dirà lo disfecero.
~ Guido Ceronetti
Les villages lointains sont comme les paupières Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus - LES FIANÇAILLES -
~ Guillaume Apollinaire