India Quotes - Page 30

• I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India.

  Narendra Modi

  Blessed, Addresses, Students

  "Top 15 quotes from PM's Teachers' Day speech". Narendra Modi's Teachers' Day address to 700 school children at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, www.rediff.com. September 5, 2014.

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• When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India.

  Narendra Modi

  Teacher, School, Japan

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• India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

  Narendra Modi

  Teacher, Thinking, Exporting

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• Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Actors, Timing, Speak

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• My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

  Sharon Stone

  Awareness, Aids, Enormous

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• India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Forever, Born, Made

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.245, Arcade Publishing

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• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  Abdul Kalam

  Nuclear, Weapons, Today

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• I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.

  Russell Peters

  Just Saying

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• One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.

  Katherine Boo

  Weed, Writing, Lakes

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• Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"

  Hu Shih

  Reading, Opportunity, Light

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• I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, School

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• If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Mars, Clean

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• In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour...In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Lying, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Israel, Years

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• The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years.

  Aurel Stein

  Opportunity, Years, Land

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• There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

  Benjamin Creme

  America, People, Dying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

  Yann Martel

  Imagination, And Love, Stories

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Names, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mean, Technology, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."

  Neal Barnard

  Vegetarianism, Years, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Buckets, Want, Lists

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• Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Party

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

  Amartya Sen

  Home, Thinking, Democracies Have

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• There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

  Amartya Sen

  Strong, Empowerment, Connections

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