Cradle Quote by George Bernard Shaw

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I have seen enough of the Senanayakes, Bandaranaikes, Ratwattes, Kotalawelas, Jayawardenes, Wickramasinghes, Premadasas, Pereras and Silvas. There is no denying that they are all…

— V. Navaratnam

Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government,…

— M.I.A

“But the real kicker came with the revelation that Denisovan DNA was alive and well in contemporary Melanesians—the indigenous people of Fiji, Papua New…

— Adam Rutherford

“Then there were the people. Assamese, Jats, and Punjabis; people from Rajasthan, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu; from Pushkar, Cochin, and Konarak; warrior caste, Brahmin,…

— Gregory David Roberts

I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always,…

— Kumar Sangakkara

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that…

— E. O. Wilson

“To categorize some people as indigenous and others as alien, to argue about the identity of the first inhabitants of the subcontinent, and to…

— Romila Thapar

I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda.

— Sudha Chandran

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

— M.I.A

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great…

— Mark Twain

“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure…

— Carl Sagan