India Quotes

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. (Kiran Desai)
My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. View quote
Edward Gibbon
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. View quote
Hu Shih
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. View quote
Kiran Desai
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat. View quote
Thomas Friedman
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. View quote
Winston Churchill
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. View quote
Abdul Kalam
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! View quote
Curtis Stone
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around, that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people. (Rahul Gandhi)
Europe is only powerful; India is beautiful. View quote
Savitri Devi
Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner. View quote
François Gautier
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. View quote
Will Durant
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. View quote
Bruno Latour
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God. View quote
Salman Rushdie
My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom. View quote
Annie Besant
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time. View quote
Lalu Prasad Yadav
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. View quote
Mark Twain
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. (Andy Stern)
Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to. View quote
Esther Duflo
It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be? View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable. View quote
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology. View quote
Yoshiro Mori