India Quotes
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The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.
Alistair Cooke
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.
George Washington
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I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
Kushal Pal Singh
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Relations between India and China have been founded on solid understanding of the affinities of the cultures and the civilizations of the two countries, and the imperatives of peaceful co-existence and close co-operation between them in the post-cold war world. I believe that India-China friendship and co-operation could be a shining example of concord and harmonious relations between two ancient civilizations and the foundation for a just, stable and peaceful world order.
K. R. Narayanan
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.
Michael Jackson
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The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.
Vandana Shiva
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We have to acknowledge the substantial progress that has been made in India.
Pierre Pettigrew
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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.
Evan S. Connell
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What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
Esther Duflo
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He has that uniqueness to respond to a tough situation with ease. He does not involve himself much emotionally, and that’s his quality. India are lucky to have a captain like Dhoni.
V. V. S. Laxman
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter
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India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.
Brian Lara
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Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As the President of India, I had lots of experiences that were full of pain and helplessness. There were occasions when I could do nothing for people and for the nation. These experiences have pained me a lot. They have depressed me a lot. I have agonised because of the limitations of power. Power and the helplessness surrounding it are a peculiar tragedy, in fact.
K. R. Narayanan
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Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
Bill Gates
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For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence.
Mahatma Gandhi