Best india & cities Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

Art Humanity Cities Poverty Creativity Land Civilization India Enormous Plenty Uplifting Daily Life Village Magnificent Sparkle

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

Thinking Helping Energy Cities Car Majors Mass Program India Tiny Finance Developing Pollution Electric Adoption Brazil Accommodate Renewable Energy Grids Congestion Electric Car

Author:Ginni Rometty

“Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.”

Two Bigs Girl Bits Cities Week Adventure Six India Shooting Hops Exploring Two Weeks Hindi Mumbai Cheetahs Amazing Places Rickshaw

Author:Michael Steger

“My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness”

Made Beautiful Cities Focus India Governance Good Health Cleanliness Parameters Beautiful City

Author:Narendra Modi

“I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.”

Thinking Needs Feels Different Culture Cities Building Essence India Architect Singapore Kansas Arkansas Kansas City

Author:Moshe Safdie

“Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.”

Together Cities Half India Twenties Working Together Dozen

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.”

Today Cities Violence Type India Nonviolence Fragrance Cowardly Stink

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.”

People America Remember Felt Cities India South Caught Mexico Earthquakes South America Lineage Mexico City

Author:Anne Waldman

“We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in the way we work together with state governments, districts and cities. Because we know, as you do, that our vision may be formed in Delhi, but our success will be determined by state capitals.”

Knows Way May States Government Together Cities Vision India Determined Working Together Governance State Government Delhi

Author:Narendra Modi

“We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.”

People Needs Cities Empowerment India Assuming Lifestyle Aspiration Village Need A Change

Author:Narendra Modi

“My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning for Hindus. That was the place I lived for the first year I was in India and I've been back many times. It's a kind of home to me.”

Trying Years Firsts Kind Home Challenges Cities Intellectual India Incredibles Varanasi

Author:Diana L. Eck

“China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.”

World Cities Growing Building Development Percent India Increase Population China Around The World Overwhelming Carbon Footprint Carbon Footprint

Author:Frank Gehry

“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.”

People Should Years Long Today Wanted Poor Cities Poverty Ten Mountain Aspect Years Ago India Assuming Forests Tribes Better Off

Author:Indira Gandhi

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

Cities India Fantastic Krishna Hares Hare Krishna

Author:George Harrison

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

Feels Cities India Optimistic Grandeur

Author:Arundhati Roy

“In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.”

People States Poor Cities Poverty Beats India Parks Stations Platforms Railway Flooding Railway Station

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance from - and a new way of looking at - India. I'm grateful for the movement. I feel as if I've crammed several lives into one.”

Ifs Way Feels Jobs Cities Movement India Grateful Distance New Ways Retrospect Full Time Jobs

Author:Karan Mahajan

“Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.”

Children Cities Education India Educational Lasting Village Links Basic Education

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.”

Kids America Young Culture Cities New York Grew Mom Grew Up India Immigrants New York City Single Mom

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.”

“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”

Doe Would Be Cities Information Travel Normal Opposites India Golden Golden Rule Calcutta Insiders

Book:Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback

Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback

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