Srilanka Quotes

#1. 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

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

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#3. 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

#4. We're all forced to lead many lives simultaneously. We do it out of necessity, not choice. We don't make a virtue of it.

Ashok Ferrey

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

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

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

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#7. They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people.

Ashok Ferrey

#8. When a man marries, he should take a good look at his mother-in-law first, to understand where life will take him.

Ashok Ferrey

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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