Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

• India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Pain, Passion, Maturity

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “The Quintessence of Nehru”

• The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Song, Memories, Civilization

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

• There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ideas, Two, Age

• ...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Death, Suicide, Destiny

  1953 Tribute, Indian Parliament, 9 Mar.

• I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Age, Aging, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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