Indian Quotes

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

God made me an Indian.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.