Punjab Quotes

• I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.

  Kabir Bedi

  Morning, Air, Sitting Down

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

  Mohsin Hamid

  New York, Home, Cities

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, Believe

  Remarks to the Joint Session of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 08, 2010.

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• I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Government, Self

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Letters of Iqbal”

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• I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

  Yash Chopra

  Believe, Thinking, Lahore

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Though "Veer-Zaara" is a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice in "Veer-Zaara"(2004). It's a very intense, humane and emotional story. "Veer-Zaara" (2004) is a humble tribute to my home in Punjab. It's my tribute to the one-ness of people on both sides of the border. Every religion preaches peace. Then why the bloodshed for the sake of religion? Why are we destroying each other?.

  Yash Chopra

  Humble, Home, Emotional

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Cancer, Cities, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

  Joe Biden

  Grandmother, Grandfather, India

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Drug, Youth, Problem

  "7 out of 10 youths in Punjab have drug problem: Rahul". www.rediff.com. October 11, 2012.

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