Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

#1. But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

Kabir Bedi

#3. Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#4. My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#5. I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#6. Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#8. And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.

Barack Obama

#9. In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. Death is not the end of life but the beginning of eternal life.

Debasish Mridha

#11. More than survive, my son, as I have survived. Live! Be true to the callings in your heart.

R.A. Salvatore

#12. The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

Lewis Gordon

#13. That in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#14. I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place.

Sarah Camp