I Am Armenian Quotes

#1. I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms ... my entire body is hairless.

Kim Kardashian

#2. But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Andrea Martin

#3. Moe was a triple threat."
"He could sing, dance, and act?"
She shook her head. "He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag.

Marisha Pessl

#4. I am ashamed of my nation.

Djemal Pasha

#5. He was only thirty-eight. His body was clean, well-fed, and benign. He had all his teeth. A fresh Armenian joke stirred in his head like a child in its mother's womb. He thought life was wonderful.

Ilya Ilf

#6. Like a child in new boots leaping from puddle to puddle, this view sees history as leapfrogging from one bloodbath to the next, from World War One to World War Two to the Cold War, from the Armenian genocide to the Jewish genocide to the Rwandan genocide, from Robespierre to Lenin to Hitler.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Alan Hovhaness

#8. Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

Serj Tankian

#9. Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek,but don't trust an Armenian

George Orwell

#10. I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?

Chris Bohjalian

#11. All I can say is that there is indeed a crisis here. We cannot speak to one another in a meaningful way, every one of us is a leader, a general of the army, a king, a president, the greatest thinker of all time, and so on and so forth. This is the curse of the Armenian race.

William, Saroyan

#12. From that high up, language or the lack of it didn't matter much. The swirling currents of people were way better than anything on TV. Even on cable. Except, possibly, the Armenian Channel.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#13. I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.

Francois Hollande

#14. 800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed ... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Djemal Pasha

#15. The club survived though and became a symbol of hope and pride for over half a million refugees scattered across Azerbaijan, many of whom still live in temporary settlements within a few kilometers of the frontline.

Arthur Huizinga

#16. If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Mark Foley

#17. I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers.

Khloe Kardashian

#18. 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 there are people of Armenian descent anywhere! So many of them and so few of us!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#19. a South American mercenary who served as Inspector General of the Turkish forces in Armenia, reported that the Governor-General of the province had ordered the local authorities in Adil Javus 'to exterminate all Armenian males of twelve years of age and over'.

Niall Ferguson

#20. 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 belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

William, Saroyan

#21. Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#22. If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

Daron Malakian

#23. an appointment with a local property tycoon who got into trouble with some Armenian gang members because he didn't want to pay them

L.J. Shen

#24. Who was Vardan Mamikonian, and how did he come to play this most crucial role in Armenian history? It may justifiably be said that without his committed leadership, the term "Armenian" today might have referred to no more than an obscure, one-time, Christian people of long past.

Arra Avakian

#25. My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Louis L'Amour

#26. My uncle Khosrove became very irritated and shouted, It's no harm. What is the loss of a horse? Haven't we all lost the homeland? What is this crying over a horse?

William, Saroyan

#27. Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

Serzh Sargsyan

#28. she's part Armenian,

Dahlia Adler

#29. The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.

Laura Kelly

#30. You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Atom Egoyan

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

Arshile Gorky

#32. The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war..

Theodore Roosevelt

#33. The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

Pope Francis

#34. It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

Jimmy Carter

#35. He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

Woody Allen

#36. He sleeps for himself and dreams for others.

Anonymous

#37. Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.
Rose of Life

Sonia Rumzi

#38. No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.

Taner Akcam