Top 100 Delhi's Quotes

#1. On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

Peter Roebuck

Delhi's Quotes #20187
#2. If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

Shreya Ghoshal

Delhi's Quotes #58652
#3. I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Delhi's Quotes #59231
#4. I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover.

Vir Das

Delhi's Quotes #74390
#5. I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Khushwant Singh

Delhi's Quotes #83589
#6. Setting the remains of a freshly erupted volcano, I walk.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #93086
#7. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.

Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford

Delhi's Quotes #101026
#8. I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

Orhan Pamuk

Delhi's Quotes #112474
#9. Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

Tina Turner

Delhi's Quotes #122601
#10. This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

Salman Rushdie

Delhi's Quotes #125048
#11. Just because some dreams never see light that doesn't make us nonbelievers, they are wings to our sky and fiction makes us dream. I know the truth is fatal, especially for the stubborn's but trust me the illusion is worse.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #163596
#12. As much as they were right for each other, time wasn't right for them.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #166546
#13. I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Delhi's Quotes #180910
#14. I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options for students of science though, so I shifted to Delhi and decided to try theater instead.

Kangana Ranaut

Delhi's Quotes #194718
#15. Giving it those ones' is Delhi School of Architecture slang for 'faking it big time'.

Anupama Chopra

Delhi's Quotes #194994
#16. It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

Nandan Nilekani

Delhi's Quotes #228136
#17. Funny . . . humanity's great at the tiny patterns. We can find quarks in an atom and Jesus's face in a tortilla. But that big picture is so elusive, so overwhelming, people refuse to believe something as obvious as their life in Des Moines affects lives in Delhi.

P.J. Manney

Delhi's Quotes #248176
#18. I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

Sugata Mitra

Delhi's Quotes #259404
#19. Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government ... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi's Quotes #260976
#20. Of course, you feel good to play in a familiar environment. I enjoyed Delhi 2000 a lot. But the advantage doesn't work during a game. There, only the moves count.

Viswanathan Anand

Delhi's Quotes #278377
#21. The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Delhi's Quotes #295362
#22. I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.

Preity Zinta

Delhi's Quotes #307011
#23. Crows are the world's great survivors. They are capable of living at any height and in any climate; as much at home in the back streets of Delhi as on the heights of Tungnath. Another

Ruskin Bond

Delhi's Quotes #309604
#24. The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #324445
#25. Growing up in Delhi, one gets addicted to pollution.

Karan Mahajan

Delhi's Quotes #327074
#26. the bus was running late, but in truth this was no surprise. Delhi probably got its name from the word 'delay'.

Karl Pilkington

Delhi's Quotes #332665
#27. Gandhiji used to say, 'True democracy is not run by twenty people sitting in Delhi. The power centres now are in capital cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. I would like to distribute these power centres in seven lakh villages of India.

Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi's Quotes #336411
#28. Delhi people can make anything look fancy. Delhi scares me with fast pace vehicles and running life, it can almost thrill anyone.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #337385
#29. MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'

Satyajit Ray

Delhi's Quotes #355401
#30. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!

Khushwant Singh

Delhi's Quotes #387087
#31. I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!

K. Hari Kumar

Delhi's Quotes #392129
#32. During the meeting in Delhi with Dirac on 12 January 1955, Nehru asked him if he had any recommendations for the future of the new republic of India. After his usual reflective pause, Dirac replied: 'A common language, preferably English. Peace with Pakistan. The metric system.

Graham Farmelo

Delhi's Quotes #393822
#33. Whenever I get three-four days in hand, I fly down to Delhi to spend time with my family and my dog.

Esha Gupta

Delhi's Quotes #401728
#34. He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #418624
#35. In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.

Vir Das

Delhi's Quotes #441082
#36. I grew up in Delhi, where there are no Parsis. But once I came to Mumbai, I realised how quirky Parsis are.

Cyrus Broacha

Delhi's Quotes #453578
#37. Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

Esha Gupta

Delhi's Quotes #457321
#38. We are thrilled with the response we are getting to Le Cirque at The Leela Palace New Delhi. Our goal is to bring a luxury dining experience consistent with international standards of excellence to the expanding and discerning clientele in India.

Sirio Maccioni

Delhi's Quotes #476207
#39. Whoever has built a new city in Delhi has always lost it: the Pandava brethren, Prithviraj Chauhan, Feroz Shah Tughluk, Shah Jehan ... They all built new cities and they all lost them. We were no exception.

William Dalrymple

Delhi's Quotes #489534
#40. The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It's always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It's just a special place.

Virat Kohli

Delhi's Quotes #493286
#41. It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #536047
#42. June in Delhi illustrates the common belief that a Delhiwala, like a cockroach, can survive anything, for such are the vicissitudes of weather, conditioning and deprivation that the human spirit here has soared to new heights of indomitability to survive.

Namita Gokhale

Delhi's Quotes #552834
#43. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #579922
#44. Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

Kabir Bedi

Delhi's Quotes #580757
#45. The Fastest Growing SEO Company In Delhi - Avemfly Technology

Amit Mandal

Delhi's Quotes #596441
#46. I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

Ricky Martin

Delhi's Quotes #600558
#47. India has long scrutinised charities, which have to obtain New Delhi's permission to receive overseas money.

Anonymous

Delhi's Quotes #627448
#48. Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #632541
#49. I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

Ines De La Fressange

Delhi's Quotes #635328
#50. Cut off's are like real sadist as they watch some folks happy and disappoint the majority. People dream of a life at Delhi University. Delhiites know there is something special about the brand name and life at the campus. Rest as they say is history and it speaks volumes.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #662410
#51. I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

Gregory David Roberts

Delhi's Quotes #675000
#52. As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.

Pankaj Mishra

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#53. Living independent might come as appalling as the word to anyone but me. The one who thinks it's a cool idea and worth it, has sure forgotten that independence comes with a price. If one doesn't still agree, you gotta try staying at a hostel.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #723581
#54. I walk alone and on my own.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #741313
#55. I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK's at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha's rolls. In Mumbai, it's Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Virat Kohli

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#56. My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

Sebastian Coe

Delhi's Quotes #765368
#57. Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Hong Mei

Delhi's Quotes #766690
#58. THE LAST DROP 1960 WHERE: The Leela Palace New Delhi PRICE: Rs 35,000 for 30 ml,

Anonymous

Delhi's Quotes #766737
#59. Nostalgia washes over me with tons of memors and lifetime rolled on this land. Every oblivious memory from the childhood wraps open in the fragrance of these busy roads and familiar land, long signals, irritating traffic,honking cars,rushing people,excessive pollution defining Delhi at its best.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #783963
#60. That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,

Khushwant Singh

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#61. Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

William Dalrymple

Delhi's Quotes #789290
#62. Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Virat Kohli

Delhi's Quotes #811370
#63. I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai. Delhi-NCR is still very special to me.

Sonu Nigam

Delhi's Quotes #818042
#64. If Allah has willed it that way ... He must have better plans for you child ...

K. Hari Kumar

Delhi's Quotes #832304
#65. Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No

William Dalrymple

Delhi's Quotes #879951
#66. I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

Lillete Dubey

Delhi's Quotes #888396
#67. Delhi's most famous Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya, who gave spiritual guidance to the incredible Amir Khusro - musician, scholar, poet and the father of qawwali.

Saba Naqvi

Delhi's Quotes #905349
#68. Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God. Through effort you can never reach to nirvana - you can reach lo New Delhi, but not to nirvana.

Rajneesh

Delhi's Quotes #926184
#69. We had heard that the people of Delhi loved their city as bees love flowers. But we could not believe that the child of a courtesan would prefer to live in a Delhi brothel rather than in our palace in Iran!

Khushwant Singh

Delhi's Quotes #929403
#70. While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.

Vir Das

Delhi's Quotes #935438
#71. We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

Narendra Modi

Delhi's Quotes #937479
#72. Myra wasn't simple or complicated. She was different. She was not perfect, not even close but her flaws were intresting. She always had an opinion, something to say about everything.Most interesting thing about her is that she never said something to please, yet she was nice to be around.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #943778
#73. I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.

Sonu Nigam

Delhi's Quotes #958783
#74. Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Delhi's Quotes #971556
#75. I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.

Pranab Mukherjee

Delhi's Quotes #979019
#76. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie.

William Dalrymple

Delhi's Quotes #981435
#77. One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Narendra Modi

Delhi's Quotes #997027
#78. When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

Kunal Nayyar

Delhi's Quotes #997194
#79. Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

John Hickenlooper

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#80. Web A to Z one of the best seo company in Delhi and provide result oriented seo in given time frame. Get more information visit at our official website.

Sumeet

Delhi's Quotes #1008027
#81. If you are known to do something well, people want to see you do that. But what you choose to do is up to you. After 'Delhi Belly,' I got some 40 scripts - some on the same lines as 'Delhi Belly.' So, I guess people only get stereotyped if they want to.

Vir Das

Delhi's Quotes #1049318
#82. Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city.

Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi's Quotes #1056438
#83. I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #1063289
#84. I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Amartya Sen

Delhi's Quotes #1075935
#85. The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

Vladimir Putin

Delhi's Quotes #1086720
#86. I was only 24 years old when a lady called Sabina Sehgal Saikia - the then 'Delhi Times' editor - asked me to host the 'Times Food Guide Awards,' so it was with The 'Times of India' that my career began in this field.

Vir Das

Delhi's Quotes #1091269
#87. I got 'Delhi Belly' and 'Badmaash Company' because people from the production house had seen my stand-up comic acts in a DVD that was lying in their offices. It's been a weird journey, and I think weird goes with me.

Vir Das

Delhi's Quotes #1111644
#88. My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

Satyajit Ray

Delhi's Quotes #1124054
#89. Hostel is one phase in a man's life that teaches him what Indian mothers fail to teach their children despite the use of potential weapons like rolling pin,broom stick, wiper so on and henceforth. Who knows if you are luckier, you might just experience your bachelorhood as a paying guest.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #1153909
#90. I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Narendra Modi

Delhi's Quotes #1156181
#91. Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!

K. Hari Kumar

Delhi's Quotes #1159392
#92. There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Delhi's Quotes #1161420
#93. South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven for the rarest sight of Delhiites served with cherry.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #1186929
#94. The fact that Nehru had risked his life to save a single Moslem had a profound effect far beyond New Delhi. Many thousands of Moslems who had intended to flee to Pakistan now stayed in India, staking their lives on Nehru's ability to protect them and assure them justice. In

Shashi Tharoor

Delhi's Quotes #1193961
#95. Life is all about the choices we didn't make; it's Any day worth the risk.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #1200477
#96. Better people are possible to create, even in Delhi.

Mihir S. Sharma

Delhi's Quotes #1248305
#97. When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.

Khuswant Singh

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#98. Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

Amit Bhatia

Delhi's Quotes #1479815
#99. Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.

Parul Wadhwa

Delhi's Quotes #1531636
#100. I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

Vikas Swarup

Delhi's Quotes #1733749

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