Quotes About Lebanese Civil War

#1. The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.

Brigitte Gabriel

#2. I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

Ziad Doueiri

#3. The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. No one makes it big without discipline.

Sunday Adelaja

#5. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

Chris Roberson

#6. I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

Sun Ra

#8. America entered the Lebanese Civil War. It paid the price. Two hundred marines were killed by one Shiite. Reagan pulled the troops and avoided discussing Lebanon. Lebanon, like AIDS, was hardly ever mentioned by our president.

Rabih Alameddine

#9. When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

Rabih Alameddine

#10. Honey, I live in heels.

Jaci Burton

#11. Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Gish Jen

#12. The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

Mary Pipher