A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Arithmetic Daily Etc Geography Give History Knowledge Letters Literary Must Reading Reading And Writing Use Village Writing

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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian - Leader
October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?

Gertrude Stein

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Thomas Sowell

I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself.

Svetlana Alexievich

I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.

Nat Hentoff

Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules don't just happen. The rules for a city are different from the ones for a village, but as a village slowly gets bigger, a city may be stuck with the rules of the village.

Paul Romer

We were from a village that's now in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district, in Kot Addu tehsil. Our village was 10 km away from the city. The boys had to walk barefoot for 10 km from the village to the school in Kot Addu.

Milkha Singh

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

Robin Williams

Panchayat' is set in a village and is the story of an urban man coming to the village.

Jitendra Kumar

There were so many people who were instrumental in helping me get better. They say it takes a village, and the tennis community has been my village. That's why I've always felt that I have a responsibility to give back.

Katrina Adams

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

Svetlana Alexievich

It takes a village to run the Big Man - a village of doctors.

Clarence Clemons

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

O. Henry

I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

Donald Sinden

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles

Dennis Banks

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.

Amitava Kumar

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