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“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.”

Firsts Tree Feet Atheism Mouths India South Fruit Positive Atheism Drawing Temples Pairs Caves Columns Presenting Serpent Colonels Entwined

Author:Godfrey Higgins

“Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.”

Men Long Fall Race Feet Position Prove Anxiety Vote India England Obstacles Cows Lofty Pedestal Owing Tiresome

Author:Stella Benson

“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.”

Long Parent Acting Company Careers Player Feet Land Stage India England Performing Courtesy Up And Down

Author:Felicity Kendal

“An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.”

Giving Humanity Feet Europe India No Hope

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.”

Feet Century India Dust Knees Crush Poorest Untouchables

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.”

Years Mind Hands Motivational Able Mother Next Sleep Race Feet Worship Ears India Rounds Disappear Vain Awake Fifty Great Mother

Book:Vivekananda Reader

Source: Vivekananda Reader

“The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.”

Should War Poor Poverty Break Feet Empowerment Ultimate India Soldier Objectives Empowering Cycles Subsidies War On Poverty Cycle Of Poverty

Author:Narendra Modi

“I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.”

Children Mother Given Feet Empowerment India Welcome Enthusiasm

Author:Narendra Modi

“I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.”

Knows Want Feet Youth Pride Dignity India Asking

Author:Narendra Modi

“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.”

Looks Has Beens Made Country Home Behinds Greater Feet Land Higher Drink Eternal India Ancient Soil March Other Countries Sage Fountain Brighter

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.”

“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

“Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.”

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

Country Hours Saws Four Feet Rain India Twenties Climate Intense Instance Mumbai Rainfall

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do