British East India

Famous quotes containing the words british, east and/or india:

    If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.
    British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided. The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 14:21,22.

    There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
    Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)