Indian Quotes - Page 39

• I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world.

  Brett Lee

  Roles, Pace, World

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Age, Crowns, Determined

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• I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.

  Glenn Turner

  Father, Years, Wife

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• The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Ocean, Egypt

  "Battle for the Skies". Book by Michael Paterson, David & Charles, 2004.

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• In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.

  Victoria Finlay

  Eye, Blood, Color

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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Yoga, Exercise, Order

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. CW 12, par. 126, p. 99, 1952.

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• Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, White, Attention

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.304, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.

  Karl Marx

  Blow, Historical, Firsts

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1986). “India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings”

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• The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

  William Allingham

  Winter, Autumn, Apples

  William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”, p.169

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• I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

  Lee Konitz

  Havens, Indian Music

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• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni

  Culture, Bigs, Indian Culture

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• Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow

  Memories, Powerful, Yankees

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1871). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.355

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• I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Two, Hands, Goddess

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• The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.

  Jean Sylvain Bailly

  Stars, School, Moon

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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 will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Games, Hunters

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 206), 1993.

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• Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

  Richard Attias

  Girl, Hero, Athlete

  "Sport: Bridging the Gender Gap" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Spots, Bits

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• At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'

  Robbie Robertson

  Girl, Guitar, Age

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• Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Sea, Tea

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.121, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, House, Guests

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.48, BookBaby

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• This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White Man, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.26, BookBaby

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• Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretch who cannot, cannot love: He bears a load which nothing can remove, A killing, withering weight.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Brother, Hate

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.216, Delphi Classics

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• The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Past, Mexican, Black

  "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future". Interview with Anne-Marie O'Connor, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 2006.

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