Mumbai Travel Quotes

#1. I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Jessica Valenti

#3. The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#4. So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

John Donne

#5. Son of a bitch," said Locke, "but I am displeased. It all comes down to clothes. Clothes, clothes, clothes. What a ridiculous thing to be restrained by.

Scott Lynch

#6. Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Hong Mei

#7. I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
But don't move the way fear makes you move.

Rumi

#9. It gets harder and steeper, but not impossible.

Ally Condie

#10. The moon is your reminder that God is never-changing, and you can always depend on Him to hear your prayers.

Tessa Emily Hall

#11. The sage, while clad in homespun, conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.

Lao-Tzu

#12. The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

George Eliot

#13. Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

G.H. Hardy

#14. For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time when we study the faces of 'old people' and sense that one day we will be just like them. And that is the moment when early childhood comes to an end.

Irene Nemirovsky

#15. Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

Fareed Zakaria

#16. He knew women early and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.

F Scott Fitzgerald