Quotes About Calcutta

#1. With the use of a map, I could walk from Paris to Calcutta; without a map, I might find myself in Odessa. Well, if we had a similar 'map' of the human mind, a man could explore all the territory that lies between death and mystical vision, between catatonia and genius.

Colin Wilson

#2. I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Susanna Moore

#3. Everyone acknowledges that dinner parties are equally dull in London and Paris, in Calcutta and in New York, unless the next neighbour happens to be peculiarly agreeable.

Isabella Bird

#4. Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.

Henry Rollins

#5. Bring all you are suffering to [Jesus] . . . only open your heart to be loved by Him as you are. He will do the rest. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta,

Bob Schuchts

#6. He was proud to have come alone to America. To learn it, as he once must have learned to stand and walk and speak. He'd wanted so much to leave Calcutta, not only for the sake of his education but also - he could admit this to himself now - to take a step that Udayan never would.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#7. Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

Mother Teresa

#8. In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

Zubin Mehta

#9. You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

Mother Teresa

#10. Don't behave in a funny manner. We must have Calcutta in India.

Pranab Mukherjee

#11. I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death

Alison Weir

#13. But if Mother Theresa went to collect all the prizes she is awarded, the death rate in Calcutta would soar.

Umberto Eco

#14. Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.

Bill Gates

#15. Calcutta taxis carry two men in the front seat was explained to us later. One's job is to drive. The other's is to prevent passengers from murdering the driver and stealing the cab. Exciting

Carveth Wells

#16. In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

Tom Paxton

#17. Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

Lester R. Brown

#18. These were autumn mornings, the very time of year when kings of old went forth to conquest; and I, never stirring from my little corner in Calcutta, would let my mind wander over the whole world.

Rabindranath Tagore

#19. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She said: We must be very proud of our vocation because it gives us the opportunity to serve Christ in the poor.

Pope Francis

#20. I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#21. An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

Vijender Singh

#22. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

Mother Teresa

#23. Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.

Bharati Mukherjee

#24. Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

Frederick Pollock

#25. Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.

Penelope Cruz

#26. Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863, in Calcutta. From the beginning he was a precocious boy of exceptional energy. Yet his innate tendency toward meditation showed itself even in his early life. For along with the ordinary childhood games, he would play at meditation.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.

Geoffrey Boycott

#28. My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#29. There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

Tahir Shah

#30. Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

Amit Chaudhuri

#31. People in New York go to Calcutta to get some relief from begging

Bill Bryson

#32. Where, in Heaven's name, could anyone even be alone in Calcutta? What hanky-panky business, in my mother's words, could go on? Everyone knew the rules and the rules stated caste and community narrowed the range of intimate contact.

Bharati Mukherjee

#33. Mother Theresa always said, Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

Shane Claiborne

#34. I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

Olivia Hussey

#35. See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.

Swami Vivekananda

#36. Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

Bharati Mukherjee

#37. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Mother Teresa

#38. Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

Tahir Shah

#39. The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

Chris Matthews

#40. History knew the truth. History was the most inhuman product of humanity.It scooped up the whole of human will and, like the goddess Kali in Calcutta, dripped blood from its mouth as it bit and crunched.

Yukio Mishima

#41. In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

Henry Rollins

#42. It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Susanna Moore

#43. Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?

Bharati Mukherjee

#44. If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Mother Teresa

#45. I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

Woody Allen

#46. 'Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta's many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture.

Niels Arden Oplev

#47. India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Donald Wuerl

#49. You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person ... What America offers me is romanticism and hope ... Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

Bharati Mukherjee

#50. Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

Amit Chaudhuri

#51. Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Tahir Shah

#52. So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.

Rabindranath Tagore

#53. He has told us that He is the hungry one. He is the naked one. He is the thirsty one. He is the one without a home. He is the one who is suffering. These are our treasures, she said, looking at the rows of pallets in the caravanserai. They are Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#54. Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

Mother Teresa

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

Hong Mei