Zana Quotes

#1. Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Leyla Zana

#2. To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Amy Heckerling

#3. I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

Zana Marjanovic

#4. Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

Leyla Zana

#5. Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Marilyn Ferguson

#6. To those who refuse to be blinded by the glare, or deafened by the hush, who are brave enough to question, and curious enough to explore. To those who will not forget. You will make a difference. And to the rest of us, so that we may learn how.

Zana Fraillon

#7. The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Zana Marjanovic

#8. Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.

Zana Briski

#9. I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

Leyla Zana

#10. A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio

#11. The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

E.B. White

#12. Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Leyla Zana

#13. I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.

Zana Marjanovic

#14. You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering ...

Zana Briski

#15. I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.

Zana Briski

#16. There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. My only two weapons: time and silence.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#18. There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.

Donna Chapman Gilbert

#19. My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

Rush Limbaugh

#20. I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.

Zana Briski