Delhi Quotes

• That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living.

  Khushwant Singh

  Couple, Home, Flames

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”, p.12, Penguin Books India

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• I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Soul, World, Body

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• Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.

  Karan Mahajan

  Writing, Cities, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

  Tina Turner

  People, Traffic, Shock

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• Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

  Esha Gupta

  Paradise

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• My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.

  Narendra Modi

  Way, Behave

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

  Vladimir Putin

  Unique, Museums, India

  "For Russia, deepening friendship with India is a top foreign policy priority". www.thehindu.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

  Bill McKibben

  School, Cities, Fuel

  "Donald Trump Is a Disaster for the Earth on Every Single Level". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2016.

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• Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Horrible, Knows

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• Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

  Kabir Bedi

  Dream, Home, Emotional

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• I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

  Pope Paul VI

  Brother, Men, Hundred

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• Delhi is excellent. Everything looks so beautiful. In Bombay, we don't have such beautiful roads, spacious places, and you cannot have the luxury of having houses and bungalows. You have to live in little pokey flats and cost of living is extremely high in Mumbai. Delhi has a lot that people keep preserving... a lot of which is what Delhi is about.

  Bipasha Basu

  Beautiful, Cost Of Living, Luxury

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• All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

  P. Chidambaram

  Doe

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous.

  Vir Das

  Beautiful, Facts, Gorgeous

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• Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God. Through effort you can never reach to nirvana - you can reach lo New Delhi, but not to nirvana.

  Rajneesh

  Effort, Phenomenon, Knows

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• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Country, Travel

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

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• My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

  Satyajit Ray

  Class, Play, Cities

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

  Amartya Sen

  Welfare Programs, Choices, Social

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• When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.

  Donna Karan

  Beautiful, Taken, Men

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Men, Flames

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.242

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• We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in the way we work together with state governments, districts and cities. Because we know, as you do, that our vision may be formed in Delhi, but our success will be determined by state capitals.

  Narendra Modi

  Cities, Government, Vision

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• I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cities, Want, Littles

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• There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Memories, Home, Emotional

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

  Narendra Modi

  Identity, India, Generations

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