#india

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly. ↗

— George Catlin

#always #appearance #been #civil #crows

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent. ↗

— George Catlin

#beautifully #best #continent #equipped #finest

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India. ↗

— Julie Christie

#child #even #family #i #india

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick. ↗

— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

#go #had #harps #i #indiana

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ask #business #business leaders #citizenship

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#before #care #collaborate #compete #connect

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#among #arms #blackest #british #depriving

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#give #herself #india #means #menace

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#ancestors #black #came #except #family