Top 1200 Indian Independence Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.

I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.

I think Indian women look most glamorous yet dignified in Indian attire.

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education).

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

I love Indian wear and I think no one can beat the masterpieces our Indian designers and craftsmen create.

Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about independence in the Continental Congress has tended to get forgotten.

Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.

He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

[John Adams] always felt that his contribution to bringing about independence went unappreciated, especially after the 1790s when [Tomas] Jefferson began to be lauded as the "author" of the Declaration of Independence.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

In the history of Indian cinema I am the only South Indian director who has survived for 12 years and 25 films in Bollywood.

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and that those nine babies are headed this way. This is one reason why Americans hold on so dearly to the myth of the dead Indian.

From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from fossil fuels.

I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to prosecute anyone but another Indian. American Indians having status as a foreign nation is good for us, but it's not good in some ways if we don't have the jurisdictional power that the federal government claims.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

A lot of Indian musicians settled abroad are fusing Indian music with reggae which I find very impressive.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

'Newton' is a very Indian film. I think, after a long time, people will see an Indian film in its true form. As in the story, the character, it is set in the heartland of India, but it's purely like how there was a time when Hrishikesh Mukherjee used to make sweet Indian films.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.

I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there.

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.

The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.

I don't often get Indian girl roles because I'm 'not Indian enough.' Which is true - I'm from Texas.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Since the day I was born as a low-caste Indian, I've had to fight.