Quotes About Lahore

#1. When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

Tariq Ali

#2. Lahore was a different world in its own; the busy life, the rich history, the colourful culture, and the unfamiliar faces

Javaria Waseem

#3. Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

Mohsin Hamid

#4. One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#5. I tried not to dwell on the comparison; it was one thing to accept that New York was more wealthy than Lahore, but quite another to swallow the fact that Manila was as well.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. [Taken from a BBC documentary]
Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.

Tariq Ali

#7. The reason for a Lahore-based cricketer being treated with a degree of animosity by the Karachi lobby (or vice versa a Karachi cricketer being treated similarly by the Lahore lobby) needs to be set in a wider context of historical regional and provincial tensions. Rivalries

Shaharyar M. Khan

#8. Unlike Lahore, Amritsar was unable to reclaim the proud position that it once commanded.

Daman Singh

#9. The four places I've called home in my life have been Lahore, London, New York and California. And I have a very strong tie to each one of those four places.

Mohsin Hamid

#10. The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

Louise Brown

#11. Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in ... you're exposed to people with more.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Mohsin Hamid

#13. Manto had earlier been prosecuted in Lahore for obscenity, and one of the words alleged to have been obscene was, breasts

Saadat Hasan Manto

#14. Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously ...

Mohsin Hamid

#15. I think Princess Diana enjoyed it here in Pakistan immensely. She had a good time. But she never came to my family home. She came to my home in Lahore instead.

Hasnat Khan

#16. Many of today's youngsters are unaware that in their grandparents' time Kolkata, Dhaka and Chittagong were part of a single entity, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, Amritsar and Jalandhar likewise. And they are unaware of what it means for a nation to find freedom.

Rajmohan Gandhi

#17. There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Mohsin Hamid

#18. I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

Yash Chopra

#19. Anger can enslave us, or it can provide freedom, all depending upon how it is used.

David W. Earle

#20. To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Corita Kent

#21. The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

#22. I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

Charles Wesley

#23. Anne tried to bite her tongue, but she was finding her mouth bloody too often.

Janice Lane Palko

#24. It really was all about where I had ended up and not where I had been, because as long as he was there, wherever that happened to be was going to be where I was supposed to be at as well.

Jay Crownover

#25. When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

Charles R. Swindoll

#26. People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

Lindsey Vonn

#27. The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.

Hubert Yockey

#28. Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#29. You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on ...

John Geddes