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Afghanistan Quotes by Khaled Hosseini
- Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost…
- When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means…
- I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.
- There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
- It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.…
- Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what…
- I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty
- There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
- Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work,…
- I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright…
- I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled…
- Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a…
- Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the…
- I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples…
More Afghanistan Quotes
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan. — Benazir Bhutto
- Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're… — Joe Biden
- I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a… — Bill Bryson
- Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be… — James Buchan
- I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. — Barbara Bush
- The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is… — George W. Bush
- I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a… — George W. Bush
- The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to… — Steve Buyer
- I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to… — David Cameron
- And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know… — Dick Cheney
- When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its… — Hillary Clinton