Quotes About Varanasi

#1. All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

Neem Karoli Baba

#2. In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

Narendra Modi

#3. VARANASI TRAFFIC is shambolic. It's a humbling reminder that the British drive on the left side of the road and we (Indians) drive on what's left of the road. "The traffic is not terrible at all," wrote novelist Geoff Dyer. "It is beyond any idea of terribleness. It is beyond any idea of traffic.

Guru Madhavan

#4. Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

Tahir Shah

#5. At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines 'to the worship of the true God'.

John Keay

#6. Sometimes life offers you up that kind of dichotomy, that soul-shearing rift of two very different things happening at once.

Lish McBride

#7. The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Ida B. Wells

#8. The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Neal Stephenson

#9. I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#10. But my high total and my so-called "legend" have much to do with the fact that I was in the shit a lot. In other words, I had more opportunities than most.

Anonymous

#11. So the captain came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish." (Jonah 1:6) Many

Val Waldeck