Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The only person who is going to buy that monstrosity with all it's marble and pillars is a Persian. Why did they… — Heather McDonald Copy Share Image
Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music,… — Hafez Nazeri Copy Share Image
Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more… — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
What the art historians had forgotten is that in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and Indian art, they never painted shadows. Why did they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and… — Hafez Nazeri Copy Share Image
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen… — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America and, indeed, with its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet… — John Gay Copy Share Image
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Trump's tendency is to rub shoulders with dictators. We have seen this with his attitude toward Russia and also toward the present… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The two of us with our scrappy motor and no idea what was going to happen next, a Persian version of the… — Lois Pryce Copy Share Image
Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.” quote by Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4e/michael-bloomberg-1293_battle_i-m-worried-about-the-world-because-ther_561511.jpg)
![“[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.” quote by Neil MacGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca8/neil-macgregor-16366_different_the-persian-empire-left-a-dream-of-the-m_1917602.png)
![“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…” quote by Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/al-gore-609_absurd_the-climate-financial-and-national-secur_489028.jpg)
![“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,'…” quote by Diodorus Siculus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/diodorus-siculus-47079_cities_king-croesus-watching-persian-soldiers-s_387161.png)
