Quote by Sero Khanzadyan

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

— Philip Marsden

“Are you the dove or the statue? Soaring with the eagles leaving the turkeys behind. May our highest Supreme Being be with you and…

— Harry Monarch

“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

“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

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

— Elif Shafak

“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”

— John Wyndham

“Surely it could not have been a dove God had chosen to speak through, since doves could not talk.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Colin McEvedy

“and desperate, the younger bird dove,”

— Taki Drake

“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

“The cross represents, not light, but hope. The hope that one day, when we actually do perish, we will be taken into the light.”

— Tyree Campbell

“The CUP’s genocidal wartime policies towards the Armenians and Kemal’s ruthless expulsion of Christian Ottomans featured prominently in the Nazi imagination.”

— Robert Gerwarth