#village

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#changes #delhi #during #flicker #i

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#art #city #civilization #creativity #daily

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#books #edit #i #i do #keep

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. ↗

— Tom Peters

#any #challenge #compete #eager #global

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

#east #east village #get #i #i always

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 geography books no longer exist. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#because #blame #books #built #even

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#john #john lennon #lennon #liverpool #met

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#any #cease #china #corner #democracy

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #literature #men #ownership #people

There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life. ↗

— Juan Rulfo

#life #village #change