Quotes and Sayings About India
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
-- A. K. Antony -
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
-- A. R. Rahman -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.
-- Abdul Kalam -
India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
-- Abdul Kalam -
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
-- Abdul Kalam -
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.
-- Abdul Kalam -
India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
-- Abdul Kalam -
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
-- Adrian Levy -
Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
-- Akbar -
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
-- Albert Bushnell Hart -
It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.
-- Amish Tripathi -
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
-- Anil Kapoor -
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.
-- Anil Kapoor -
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
-- Anita Desai -
We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.
-- Anna Lindh -
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
-- Annie Besant -
Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
-- Anushka Sharma
