Accepting Quote by Shusha Guppy

First of all, there are Persians and Arabs. The fact they share a religion, a Shiite religion, does not mean that they're close. It…

— Joe Biden

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

— George Bernard Shaw

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being…

— Daniel Defoe

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big…

— Ben Affleck

Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They're supposed…

— Christopher Hitchens

Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.

— Richard Engel

The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on…

— Jeremiah Denton

Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.

— Gegard Mousasi

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be…

— Kiki Smith

“The modern writers who have suggested, in a more or less open manner, that the family is a bad institution, have generally confined themselves…

— G.K. Chesterton

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever…

— Andrew Solomon

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like…

— Maren Ade