Chittagong Quotes

#1. I was born in 1940 in Hathazari, Chittagong, which is now part of Bangladesh. Education was always important to my parents, and with what little we had, they were able to provide an education for their children.

Muhammad Yunus

#2. Many of today's youngsters are unaware that in their grandparents' time Kolkata, Dhaka and Chittagong were part of a single entity, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, Amritsar and Jalandhar likewise. And they are unaware of what it means for a nation to find freedom.

Rajmohan Gandhi

#3. What had driven the litigation-loving Bengali to turn his gentle green valley into a pocket edition of hell?'

John Younie, the judge who tried the Chittagong Armoury Raid Case.

Manoshi Bhattacharya

#4. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.

Simon Spurrier

#5. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

Jim George

#6. Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)

Tim Weiner

#7. Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

A. Lee Martinez

#8. One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster