Browsing Topic Best Persian Quotes

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline … We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies – the Russian, the Norse, the Persian, the Indian, Egyptian, etc. – all came later. First and foremost were the Greeks, and they were all living in my head as though I were Zeus and they were a clamoring Chorus of Athenas.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That’s a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA’s] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.

When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours.

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that’s not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past – none of these things have been helpful.

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods – ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep – have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!

You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,’ Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. ‘Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.’ Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. ‘And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.’ Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan – ‘God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel’ – could have been written in Persian.

A Persian’s heaven is eas’ly made: ‘T is but black eyes and lemonade.

Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man – Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool – Shun Him

The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it’s a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there’s a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.

King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, ‘What is it that all those men of yours are so intent upon doing?’ ‘They are plundering your city and carrying off your treasures,’ Cyrus replied. ‘Not my city or my treasures,’ Croesus corrected him. ‘Nothing there any longer belongs to me. It is you they are robbing.’

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten… and his opinion is that I have been given to him.