Quotes About Albanian

#1. There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality. Albanian blood runs through my veins and I am proud to call myself Albanian.

Masiela Lusha

#2. Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

Dimitrije Tucovic

#3. Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Ismail Kadare

#4. My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.

Eliza Dushku

#5. Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

Sebastian Junger

#6. They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

Edith Durham

#7. Albanian dogs go "ham ham." In Catalan, dogs go "bup bup." The Chinese dogs say "wang wang," the Greek dogs go "gav gav," the Slovenians "hov hov," and the Ukrainians "haf haf." In Iceland, it's "voff," in Indonesia, it's "gong gong," and in Italian, it's "bau bau.

John Lloyd

#8. They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.

Jason Goodwin

#9. If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

Fatos Nano

#10. I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

Mother Teresa

#11. Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Benito Mussolini

#12. At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

Norman Spinrad

#13. My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.

Boris Trajkovski

#14. For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Ismail Kadare

#15. I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

Rita Ora

#16. In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Ismail Kadare

#17. The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

John Locke

#18. Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.

Cormac McCarthy

#19. I need eclectic people in my life.

Chris Terrio

#20. An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.

George Washington

#21. Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home.

Antonia Young

#22. Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

Julia Child

#23. And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

Alice Munro

#24. Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

Florynce Kennedy

#25. When you access and evaluate your goals, you will uncluttered your life of the unnecessary.

Mike Murdock

#26. His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

Hugh Laurie

#27. Because I don't really work out, I have to eat very healthy if I want to maintain my figure.

Jillian Barberie

#28. A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

Matt Cameron

#29. The Speed of Light: It's Not Just a Good Idea It's the Law. Unlike

Neil DeGrasse Tyson