Villages And Cities Quotes

#1. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

Carl Sagan

#2. Can there be any act of creation that does not first destroy? Villages fall. Cities rise. Humans die. Life springs from the soil wherein they lie. Is not any act of destruction, should Time enough pass, an act of creation?

Karen Marie Moning

#3. Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

John Amos Comenius

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. 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

#6. For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.

Rory Bremner

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

Rory Kinnear

#8. The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

William O. Douglas

#9. 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

#10. Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Narendra Modi

#11. 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

#12. Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Ismail Kadare

#13. Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

Henning Mankell

#14. Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult.

Michael Scott

#15. There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

John Burnham Schwartz

#16. I am one of those who firmly believe that our cities thrive at the expense of our villages; that our industries exploit agriculture.

Verghese Kurien

#17. I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

Jennifer Egan

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. 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

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

James M. Cain

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is - a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. "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

#26. Gandhiji used to say, 'True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India.

Arvind Kejriwal

#27. 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

#28. My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.

Laurence Yep

#29. 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

#30. We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

Patti Smith

#31. I've obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.

Hattie Morahan

#32. [In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.

Pitirim Sorokin

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

Nancy Spain