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“I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.”

Four Week Streets Six Clothes East Village Riding Cop Vests East Village

Author:Jason Wiles

“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.”

Feels Made Book Groups Middle Stranger Opening Wander Village Chapters Apartment Taxi Slums Interrupting

Book:The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

Source: The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

“If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.”

Ifs Looks Views Green Tiny Sensations Village Valleys Framed Arches Forts Rare Beauty

Author:Maynard Owen Williams

“Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.”

Names Down And Plenty Village Ireland Scotland Chicks Vikings

Author:Gerard Butler

“We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you'd just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I'm sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails.”

People Trying Lost Walks Making Money Village Squares Email Tweet Times Square Lost Money

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“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.”

Done Whole Home Age School Reading Interest Deals Cases Five High School Decided Whole Life Village Overwhelming Classmates Greenwich Greenwich Village Warsaw

Author:Tom Robbins

“I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.”

People Knows World Mean Whole Helping Film Enjoy Difficult Sides My Own Fine Industry Elements Restaurants Seats Village

Author:Jeremy Irons

“For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.”

Writing Different Shows Culture Bits Backgrounds Village Different Cultures Different Backgrounds

Author:Paulo Coelho

“It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.”

Kids Beautiful Secret Wife Mom Dad Los Angeles Village Gorgeous Mom And Dad Tokyo

Author:John Hodgman

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

Way India Wheels Village Spinning Better Ways

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

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

Knows Language Millions India British Symbols Village Revenue English Language Policemen Englishmen Collectors British Rule

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

“If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts Equal India Claims Village Republic

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.”

Way Thousand Hundred Europe India Seven Village Calcutta Bombay

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.”

Democracy India Village Units True Democracy

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

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

India Village Urbanization

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.”

Sun Village Solar System

Book:The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi

Source: The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi

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

Objects Proof Village Ambitious Starvation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.”

Reality Three Names Village

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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

Form Organization Village

Book:The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi

Source: The Gospel of Swadeshi, by M.K. Gandhi

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

Ifs Messages Village Penetrate

Book:My Picture of Free India

Source: My Picture of Free India

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

Self Civilization Built Village Factories Nonviolence Self Contained

Book:Modern V. Ancient Civilization

Source: Modern V. Ancient Civilization

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

Ifs Want Giving Violence Built Village Non Violence

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

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

Knows Village

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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

Economy Healthy Village Alphas Alpha And Omega

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.”

Ifs Men Home Becoming Workers Privilege Decent Village Honour Aspire Conducting Decent Man

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

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

Ifs Want Needs Should Village Impart

Book:The Problem of Education

Source: The Problem of Education

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

Indian Village Frontiers

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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

Process Cities Village Reverse

Book:Young India, 1927-1928

Source: Young India, 1927-1928

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

Eye Figures Evidence Naked Village Skeletons Sophistry Naked Eyes

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

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

Mean Duty Return Bread Recognition Labour Village Definite

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.”

Seems Realizing Economy Village Snakes

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.”

Want Months Goes On Bread Village Supplements

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

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

Today Cities Ruins Village Drains Crumbling

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“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.”

Giving Writing Use Reading Letters Etc Village Geography Arithmetic Reading And Writing

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.”

Want Corporate Diets Village Inertia Malady Sanitation

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.”

Process Towns Village Cotton

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.”

Four Losing Grateful Accidents East Ridiculous Drunk Village Bus Destined Limbs Wrecks East Village

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.”

Parent Sides Cities New York Grew Grew Up Village New York City Equations Bohemian Nonconformist Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Anne Waldman

“A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.”

Humor Funny Three Fire Feet Caught Flames Village Miniatures

Author:Bob Monkhouse

“I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.”

World Years War School Parent Environment Extraordinary Posts War Of The Worlds Village World War Ii World War I Grey Public School Manhattan Bohemian Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Anne Waldman

“I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.”

Years Two Eye Night Morning Harder Two Years Village Seventies Anthropologists Small Villages

Author:James C. Scott

“I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.”

Ifs Children Play Class Television Kings Drama Series Betrayal Chiefs Village Playwright Treason Headmasters Television Drama

Author:Sefi Atta

“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.”

Writing Play Appreciate Village Relevant Classmates

Author:Sefi Atta

“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.”

World Way Whole Air Ocean Connected Islands Our World Village Pollution Global Village

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.”

Want House My Friends Woods Connected Bridges Village Treehouses

Author:Jason Reeves

“Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.”

Giving Country Members Giving Up Village Asceticism Save Yourself

Author:Vyasa

“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.”

Want Believe Opportunity Seeing Development India Crisis Staying Village

Author:Narendra Modi

“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.”

“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.”

Want Country Next India Village Electricity Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“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.”

Want Giving Done Development Demand Models India Driven Village Governance Impetus

Author:Narendra Modi

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