India Quotes · Page 19

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

— Manmohan Singh

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

— Narendra Modi

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

— Freida Pinto

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

All parties must realise that unity is strength. Everyone must come together to save India.

— M. K. Stalin

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

— Arundhati Roy

From childhood I have played for India. I have represented India. I have always been a proud Indian.

— Jwala Gutta

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

— Kabir Bedi

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

E-governance is the only way to move from good governance to proactive pro-people good governance (P2G2).

— Narendra Modi

When I came here in 1999, all one could hear was the sound of the guns as guns were booming all around.…

— Narendra Modi

From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India's…

— Nirmala Sitharaman

I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.

— Saina Nehwal

“The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.”

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking…

— Tahir Shah

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and…

— V. S. Naipaul

We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs…

— Barack Obama

On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few…

— Peter Roebuck

My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real…

— Nandan Nilekani

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments…

— Anonymous

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not…

— Mother Teresa

To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened…

— Robert Thurman

We cannot just ape the west. What may be good in an alien country may be unpalatable in India.

— Suman Ranganathan

There is no dearth of talent in India, but there is no encouragement and facilities to train.

— P. T. Usha

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

— Leslie Caron

“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!”

— Dona Mayoora

When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.

— Winfried Vahland

“Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!”

— Mallika Nawal

If I am fit to rule the largest state of India, why can't I run the whole country?

— Mayawati

“The great thing about Ayurveda is that its treatments always yield side benefits, not side effects.”

— Shubhra Krishan

I feel there is a song for every occasion, and India is a land full of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

“Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?”

— Sachin Kundalkar

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

— Vijay Mallya

The people of India and Arabia have interacted across the waters between them for thousands of years.

— Sanjaya Baru

India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups

— Ian Chappell

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.

— Sushil Koirala

Even in the Caribbean, we enjoy a good curry because that's what India brought to the Caribbean.

— Liz Mitchell

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

— Arthur Schopenhauer