#india

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating. ↗

— John Green

#being #being there #chicago #easy #every

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#cultures #got #i #incredibly #indian

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#africa #always #been #believe #cause

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#became #been #country #deal #early

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#could #country #governor #great #indians

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#indian #kill #only #shoots

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#acknowledge #amazing #embarrassed #great #great nation

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#crime #death #india #only #read

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#her #india #model #must #our