Qurratulain Hyder Quotes

#1. Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation ...

Qurratulain Hyder

#2. The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

Qurratulain Hyder

#3. My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

Alison Eastwood

#4. Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon.

Doris Roberts

#5. Come the rains and the beerbahutis appeared all over the green. From where do they emerge, so perfect in shape and colour, and where do they go?

Qurratulain Hyder

#6. The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

David Halberstam

#7. My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas ... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#8. Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love ...

Hermann Hesse