Quotes About Allama Iqbal

#1. My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.

Cassie Ventura

#2. When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.

Charles Platt

#3. You can't draw her because you idolize her. You keep trying to create a tribute. But these drawings aren't about that. They're the truth.

Michael Walterich

#4. If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,
Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley

In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,
They go down on one side to come up on the other.

Allama Iqbal

#6. A traffic policeman stops Sister Bridget for speeding. She pulls into the side of the road and winds down her window. The officer walks round and starts undoing his fly. "Oh dear," she says, "Not the breathalyser again."

Frank Carson

#7. There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#8. I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.

James Heckman

#9. Struggle is in my heart all week. My own moral conflict never ceases. Knowing I cannot and must not simply submit to the standards imposed on me, and merely conform as "they" would like. This I am convinced is wrong - but the pressure never ceases.

Thomas Merton