Alphabet Quote by Laura Kelly

“The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.”

— Osip Mandelstam

“Being an Armenian is a merciless task and a heroic enterprise. It is a commandment, a mission, and a destiny that history has imposed…

— Keri Topouzian

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

— William Saroyan

“At least forty million Americans can't read and write, according to this morning's New York Times. That is six times as many illiterates as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore,…

— William Saroyan

“how both Armenian and Turkish stories tended to start with the same preamble: Once there was, once there wasn’t …”

— Elif Shafak

“History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now”

— Colin McEvedy

“And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.”

— Philip Marsden

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I…

— William Saroyan

“An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think,…

— Virginia Woolf

Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings without advertisements…

— Clive James

“She is the centre of my world. The Armenians believed that Ararat was the centre of the world; but the mountain was divided between…

— Julian Barnes