Top 325 Villages Quotes & Sayings

Railway stations can become growth points for the nearby villages.

The true India resides in its villages.

During the launch of the 'Ama Gaon, Ama Bikash' scheme, I directly spoke to women representatives from the interior villages of Sambalpur and Narayanpatna. From the way the women explained the issues pertaining to their villages and their collective needs, I understood that women empowerment has reached even the grassroots of the democratic setup.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

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 these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

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

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.

If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "S?nsad Adharsh Gr?m Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies.

I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.

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 these geography books no longer exist.

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

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?

I gathered all of the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galile and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time... The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. The wide areas were cleaned.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

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?"

South India has beautiful villages.

I want to encourage more people in small villages to take up sports.

I don't have any romantic notions about villages.

The future of India lies in its villages

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

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

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

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.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

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.

When I work in the remotest villages, it reminds me of who I am... India is not built on 14 metros and 100 cities. It's made up of 600,000 villages.

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.

London is a series of villages, really. I like that.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.

For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.

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

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.

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.

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

The soul of India lives in its villages.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.