Romain Rolland Quotes

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

A good story never dies.

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

India always inspires me.

We want every generation to know a little something about TLC.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

All tradition is merely the past.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

Literature is the memory of humanity.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Culture is coded wisdom

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told