“Kabul is . . .” Idris searches for the right words. “A thousand tragedies per square mile.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
“An isolated person is doomed beyond remedy." Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul” — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country,… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them. — Mick Cornett Copy Share Image
“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I experienced Kabul with my brother the way Amir and Hassan do: long school days in the summer, kite fighting in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Pashtun nationalism is reasserting itself. Its political history spans several hundred years. The Pashtuns are angry at the Americans because, one, they're… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war.… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“In the passenger seat, Nahil is all questions. Was Kabul safe? How was the food? Did he [Idris] get sick? Did he… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I loved wintertime in Kabul. I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds… Perhaps I am looking for his ghost.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
The problem is that so many of them are not getting told. This is a massive problem, not just in the Middle… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“I know what I said earlier, but Kabul isn’t that bad.” Mrs. Wahdati toyed with her necklace absently. She was looking out… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan to transform her own life and ended up revolutionizing the lives of many of her Afghan sisters.… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Knowing what Dan’s face had looked like in Kabul, the night they’d spent in the hotel room. What he’d said. My light,… — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the… — Myrna Blyth Copy Share Image
Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
![“I believe Fabio Celoni's work vividly brings to life not only the mountains, the bazaars, the city of Kabul and its kite-dotted skies, but also the many struggles, conflicts, and emotional highs and lows of Amir's journey [from the The Kite Runner].” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd2/khaled-hosseini-251_amir_i-believe-fabio-celoni-s-work-vividly-br_92189.jpg)
![“In the passenger seat, Nahil is all questions. Was Kabul safe? How was the food? Did he [Idris] get sick? Did he take pictures and videos of everything? He does his best. He describes for her the shell-blasted schools, the squatters living in roofless buildings, the beggars, the mud, the fickle…” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e07/khaled-hosseini-251_passenger-seat_in-the-passenger-seat-nahil-is-all-quest_1379585.jpg)
![“After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the best way to help the women in this beleaguered country was to start a small beauty school in Kabul, where aid workers could get their roots done. Vanity Fair, edited by…” quote by Myrna Blyth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/928/myrna-blyth-73900_afghanistan_after-the-war-in-afghanistan-anna-wintou_1609244.jpg)
![“Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the…” quote by Zalmay Khalilzad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a1/zalmay-khalilzad-26467_afghanistan_americans-have-eliminated-iran-s-worst-e_1213227.jpg)
