Ca India Quotes

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

India is simply dotted with pilgrimage places, and with teachers and very powerful spiritual guides.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

India is growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number.

If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade.

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.

When I go to Bali, when I come to India and travel and see different cultures. I make sure I'm involved in the world out there, creatively, culturally.

India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada.

There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.

Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence.

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

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

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

I am always fascinated by India.

There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they probably say for lifetimes - now interfacing [with the mainstream].

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

The country [India] is doing far better.

This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.

Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

India can't be looked at as a country; it's more of a continent.