Quotes About Ganges

#1. I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.

Ameen Rihani

#3. Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges ... ?

Jules Michelet

#4. There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

Don Marquis

#5. The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

Ramakrishna

#6. Mother Ganges teaches us that if we want to attain the sea of our aspiration, we must persevere in our goal and never be discouraged by the inevitable obstacles that come on our path.

Radhanath Swami

#7. The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, ... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Sir Pherozeshah had seemed to me like the Himalaya, the Lokamanya like the ocean. But Gokhale was as the Ganges.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.

Rosemary Mahoney

#10. I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc..

Voltaire

#11. I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.

Alexander Duff

#12. The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.

Willard Fiske

#13. Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

Voltaire

#14. I want my life to be easier than this. I mean, I know I'm not some starving kid who has to wash clothes in the Ganges for a nickel, but today just sucks.

A.S. King

#15. Onward & Forward! We RROOAAARRR!

Margaret Aranda

#16. Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.

Cassandra Clare

#17. How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#18. Find as much information about your subject as you can

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.

Alan Cohen

#20. Hurt me back when I hurt you and I would always love you for it.

Nitin Kumar

#21. He wants to lie down like a couple? That's fine - this can be his first experience with the wifely cold shoulder. Welcome to married life, Raahosh.

Ruby Dixon

#22. There's no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.

Lee Bolman

#24. I want my work to be accessible to people,

Jeff Koons

#25. Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, it's impossible to imagine anyone else in that role. I mean, he's just so great. Over the course of the five movies, he always just takes it so seriously, doesn't condescend to the material, whatsoever and just treats it as if he was playing Hamlet.

David Kirschner

#26. All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

Margaret O'Brien

#27. Affectation of candour is common enough - one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone.

Jane Austen

#28. They were American people and there was a kind of dirty, compelling romance about them whenever they were in groups - never

Stephen King

#29. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Gregory Benford