Afghanistan Quote by James G. Stavridis

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

— Maureen Dowd

“Afghanistan—where empires go to die. ”

— Mike Malloy

“Afghanistan is a land of widows and widowers, orphans and the missings. Missing a right leg, a left hand, a child,or a mother. Everyone…

— Nadia Hashimi

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal -…

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they…

— Colin Quinn

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

— John R. Allen

The Iraq War has thrown such a heavy shadow on Afghanistan that you can't hardly get any news about that now. I went to…

— Toby Keith

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

— Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort…

— Jack Keane