A Quote by Hilary Beckles

West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.

Hilary Beckles

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Hilary Beckles
Barbadian - Historian
Born: August 11, 1955

West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.

Garfield Sobers

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

Melanie Fiona

Sourav has got a huge role to play in Indian cricket and its success. I hope certainly that he gets back in there because he is a hell of a good player and he still has got too much to offer to Indian cricket.

Allan Donald

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Diane Abbott

Sachin Tendulkar is already a 'Bharat Ratna' for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.

Rahul Dravid

I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department.

Duncan Campbell Scott

People in the West want to hear Indian melody, not someone who is aping the West.

Anu Malik

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

Muhammad Iqbal

The greatest investment and greatest fair deal and enterprise is family, cozy homes. A cozy home is based on cozy people. Cozy people are not brought and imported, they are made from the time of birth to the time of infinity.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

In his 40s, my dad refound his youth a bit, and started going to the West Indian club in Northampton, where I'm from, where the West Indian diaspora would go to socialise on a Friday night, and have a drink and a dance to soca and the like.

Clive Lewis

We West Indian cricketers are always proud to play for the West Indies and we know we are made up of different islands and different cultures but we have to be able to mesh together, to come together and perform as a team.

Brian Lara

My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'

Garfield Sobers

New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area and particularly the customers. Great progress is being made to improve Oxford Street and make it a great destination.

Philip Green

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.