Afghanistan Quote by Jake Wood

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as…

— Khaled Hosseini

No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily…

— Vince Flynn

“marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“He described what was happening in Afghanistan as a “war between two elephants”—the US and the Soviet Union—not our war, and said that we…

— Malala Yousafzai

“to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer...”

— Stanley Bing

Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, "by not waivering".

— Billy Graham

“Lost Decency (a memoir) covers three phases of Afghanistan's last 50 years (Where it was? What Happened and Where it is headed?)”

— Atta Arghandiwal

“The English are rapidly expanding their conquests in Afghanistan [ca. 1840]”

— David H. Finnie

“because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in – and an impossible one to hold if you win.”

— M.M. Kaye

“I sat against one of the house’s clay walls. The kinship I felt suddenly for the old land... it surprised me. I’d been gone…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Kabul was fairly peaceful now and Grandpa seemed to have started wasting away since the bombing stopped. For the past twenty-three years the excitement…

— Petra Procházková