“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
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I must confess I am a major foodie and you can't beat Calcutta when it comes to food. — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Street food has always made life and living in Calcutta so much more easy and attractive. — Victor Banerjee 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
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
Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“He was proud to have come alone to America. To learn it, as he once must have learned to stand and walk… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Calcutta is a very culturally-forward city. People encourage art, music, literature and I just feel like that's a city that looks for… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
We Bengalis are querulous, arrogant, oversensitive and far, far too emotional. We cry too often and laugh too hard. We wave our… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Calcutta has spectacular over-employment. In the West, where we're obsessed with slashing the numbers of workers for the sake of it, we… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
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
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
“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
“Mother Teresa always said, “Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.” — Shane Claiborne 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
The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile. — Mother Teresa 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
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa 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
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
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
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
The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003. — Chris Matthews 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
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image