Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
Lata Mangeshkar is an old friend. I knew her through my father Aparesh Lahiri who was a music director in Calcutta. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
The Calcutta public accepted me and put me where I am. I will always be grateful to them. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
“But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In… — Tom Paxton Copy Share Image
Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
I think Calcutta is that kind of a market that if you are a Delhi or a Bombay designer, they feel they… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In Bombay people know me as a Rituparno Ghosh actor but Calcutta gives me the comfort zone and that's why I love… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Was very weary, having walked in the sun about fifteen or sixteen miles, yet had the satisfaction of discoursing with some money-changers… — George Smith Copy Share Image
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The coolies pull them across Howrah bridge, which they share with cars, trucks, bullock carts, a party of young women in saris… — Michael Tobert Copy Share Image
“the world’s cheapest small car, Tata’s Nano, worth only $1500. This toy-like ill-fated vehicle, whose destiny it was to look as if… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I almost drowned in the Hooghly river, which is something really crazy. If there is something about Calcutta that scares me, it's… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Street food has always made life and living in Calcutta so much more easy and attractive. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton. — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa always said, “Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image