Armenia Quote by Osip Mandelstam

“The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.”

— Laura Kelly

“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

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

— Colin McEvedy

“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

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

— Arshile Gorky

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

— Philip Marsden

“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

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

— William Saroyan

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

— Adolf Hitler

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

— Adolf Hitler