Top 112 Kashmir Quotes & Sayings

Without resolving Kashmir dispute, lasting peace cannot be maintained in the region.

As a kid, since I was born in Kashmir, I have been to the Amarnath caves.

I'm not an expert on India-Pakistan relations, but, Pakistan is big enough without Kashmir and India too is big enough without Kashmir.

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.

In 2011, I started a program, India First, and started a yatra from Kolkata to Kashmir, stand with Indian Army and begin process to fight for Kashmir.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

As colleagues, Shammi ji was my first co-actor and the hero of my debut film 'Junglee' in 1961. I met him for the first time at Kashmir's Shalimar Bagh where we were filming the song 'Kashmir ki kali hoon main.' I was an excited teenager, fresh out of London College, and had pursued films against my mother's wishes.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.

A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir.

But I would say my favorite Zeppelin song to play is 'Kashmir.' I have a great time playing that one.

Life was difficult for my family, as we didn't know where to go after leaving Kashmir. We settled down in Mumbai, in a suburb called Mira Road.

I feel proud when a player from Jammu and Kashmir plays for India. This shows cricket has reached all corners of the country.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

Over last 30 odd years, Kashmir has seen many highs and lows when looked at from the perspective of the security scenario, infiltrations and militancy on the ground.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

It is our priority to win the hearts of people of Jammu and Kashmir. That could only be achieved through development and their welfare. We have a responsibility to see that people of the state are prosperous. We are not talking about Hindus or Muslims, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Development comes when there is integration.

For 14 years no PM had gone to Jammu and Kashmir. Atal ji changed that and went to Jammu and Kashmir. He gave 3 Mantas- Insaniyat, Jamhuriat and Kashmiriyat (Humanity, democracy and J&K). We aspire to walk on that path

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.

But I must confess that Kashmir is one place that made me reach out for the camera. Such is the setting that no matter in which direction one looks, you get a gorgeous frame.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

My Government is committed to the equitable development of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.

During my time in Pakistan, I was asked to lead an expedition to Azad Kashmir following a devastating earthquake in 2005 that claimed the lives of 80,000 people.

Whenever you go to Kashmir, you find people who are very gentle and soft-spoken.

I've grown up in Jammu, but have been to Kashmir earlier and have seen a different side to the Valley.

The Kashmir Files' is based on the mass exodus of Kashmiri pandits from the valley in 1989-90 due to militancy.

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

I keep surprising myself with films like 'Mission Kashmir,' 'Albela,' 'Farz,' and 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.' All the roles are very different.

Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir - which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.

I still vividly remember when I was working in 'Kashmir Ki Kali,' I had no idea about lip-syncing the song 'Diwana Hua Badal' sung by Asha Bhosle and the scene was to be shot in the Dal Lake in Kashmir.

I said that there is considerable alienation among the people of Kashmir which is primarily because of the human rights excesses by the security forces in Kashmir and the impunity from prosecution given to them by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

We must learn from history, there is no military solution for the Kashmir issue...we have to understand this reality.

It is the Jammu and Kashmir government, which has to take an initiative of inviting actors and the film industry to the state.

Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

I was never sent to Kashmir on any secret mission. I want to make that position clear.

I can claim with total honesty that no home minister has visited Kashmir as many times as I have.

I don't think that the fundamental issue between India and Pakistan is Kashmir, OK.

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

It is now that the Left in India is urging the federal government to initiate unconditional talks with all stakeholders in Kashmir. Otherwise, up until now, the Left didn't even support the autonomous status of Kashmir, and the Kashmir imbroglio is not a conflict between the forces of Marxism and capitalism.

I am from Jammu and Kashmir.

Nagpur to Kanyakumari and Kashmir, future Olympic medallists can come from anywhere. It is the passion that drives you, not the city, provided you get enough facilities.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.