Sayings About The 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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. 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

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

Voltaire

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

Alexander Duff

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The context needs to be that the goal is a healthy mom. Because mothers never make decisions without thinking about that healthy baby. And to suggest otherwise is insulting and degrading and disrespectful.

Jennifer Block

#15. And how did you find the East?'
'It's a shit-hole. But it's our shit-hole.

Ian McDonald

#16. What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.

Werner Heisenberg

#17. Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

David Sylvian

#18. I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

Peter Slipper

#19. When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. I was anxious to please, even if I hated the recipient of my pleasing. My pleasee.

Marian Keyes

#21. Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#22. 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

#23. Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

Jason Calacanis