Top 39 Jaber Quotes
#1. Kuwait is the origin which our roots extend in it's base. The fort that we seek for shelter and stick to after God Almighty. Kuwait is the entity that maintains our presence that's united in it's features and divisions.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#2. There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#4. But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#5. We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#7. Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#8. Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#9. Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.
David Jaber
#10. The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#11. If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it ... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#12. You want to protect you children, don't you? You let them out of your body but you never let them all the way out.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#13. To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
#15. Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#16. We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#17. Tasting a piece of bread that someone bought is like looking at that person, but tasting a piece of bread that they baked is like looking out of their eyes.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#19. His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#20. Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#21. The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#22. He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#23. Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#24. Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#25. I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#27. Phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#29. When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#30. He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#32. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.
David Jaber
#33. It's a big formless, arctic night, the stars so bright they seem to hiss. I walk with my hands in pockets, arms pressed to my sides. Even in my down parka, the cold is still there. I feel as though my blood is crackling in it, my bones conducting cold like wires. My toes are curled in their boots.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#34. I can't tell you the amount we plan to invest in new acquisitions because that will depend on the opportunities that become available to us.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
#36. You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#37. The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#38. Kuwait will continue to be the final goal, her words will keep being the standing point.. Who works for her, nurtures her rights, protects her , and puts her before himself, will be in God's highest ranks.
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
#39. Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [ ... ] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.
Diana Abu-Jaber
