Sinhalese Quotes

#1. I am Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and Burgher. I am a Buddhist, a Hindu, a follower of Islam and Christianity. I am today, and always, proudly Sri Lankan.

Kumar Sangakkara

#2. Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Jesse Owens

#3. I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

Eric Williams

#4. Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#5. According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#6. Nothing like a good rib tickling read like Fifty Shades of Grey

LIZ

#7. Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#8. Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. It was all part of the Eastern system of control and appropriation, Frankie reflected philosophically. The old controlled the young, the educated the uneducated, and as for the rich, well the rich had no doubt at all that they actually owned the poor.

Ashok Ferrey

#10. Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#11. Even though we are supposed to be low caste and poor our vote also has the same value and validity as that of great people.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#12. Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses.

Margaret Aranda

#13. There was only one creature smarter than all of those doctors put together: the Internet. (Yes, it's a creature, okay?) I

Scott Adams

#14. Our innocent kids undergo much trouble. Not only do the children of high caste families look down upon our children calling them low caste brats, but even some teachers ridicule them. They beat our children for no reason.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#15. Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#16. The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#17. In a front of each home garden the villagers fixed a triangular wooden lamp-house on the top of a pole planted on the ground to hold a small statue of Lord Buddha and some deities. They used to offer flowers at this small shrine and light a tiny clay oil lamp.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#18. I didn't get the charm gene.

Henry Paulson

#19. When the journalist asked me about my body, it was like she was asking me to awaken her from the most gorgeous dream.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#20. Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.

Epeli Hau'ofa

#21. If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#22. Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse