Mariam Nour Quotes

And then it turned out that the House was alive, that it too could love. ~ Mariam Petrosyan

we are nothing but pencil in the hands of the creator. ~ Mariam

a beginner is not a worker, but a finisher is. ~ Mariam

Writing is the emotional morphine. ~ Mariam Maarouf

I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people. ~ Raewyn Connell And Nour Dados

Bitter truths have the power to expect backups if they are shared at all. ~ Hira Mariam

True suffering is when you don't expect anything in return ~ Nour Saidana

Unique is what I am,Special is who I am,Different is how I am ..As Simple As That!Believe in your self! ~ Nour El Hamwi

Like a rose
A fake friend exposes the petals in the tongue
And hides the spikes in the heart ~ Nour Belhaj

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing! ~ Khaled Hosseini

Only if you follow the realism of science rather than the Hollywood fantasy of romance, will you achieve True Love ~ Fred Nour

people can take you to a great place, but God takes you to the best place. ~ Mariam

When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength ...
Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

This is going to take forever."
"I wouldn't mind spending forever with you," Zaid winked. ~ Aishabella Sheikh

In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn! ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position ... The American people have changed. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. ~ Khaled Hosseini

When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow ... ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll's head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.
The little girl looks up. Puts the doll down. Smiles. ~ Khaled Hosseini

... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret… When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret that I did not open the door and take you in. I regret that I did not make you a daughter to me, that I let you live in that place for all those years. And for what? Fear of losing face? Of staining my so-called good name? How little those things matter to me now after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps that is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can do is say that you were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Mariam jo. Forgive me, forgive me. Forgive me... ~ Khaled Hosseini

The more we resist the life changes the more we suffer AND to avoid that; Expect the changes, Accept them AND Believe that Life is going just perfectly the way it is... ~ Mariam Harmoush

show me your friend and i'll tell you who you are ~ Mariam

you're never alone when you are reading books. Reading awake your mind,enlighten your life and enrich your knowledge. ~ Mariam Jackson

Nour El Dine felt much more comfortable with the vagabonds, the rabble born to commit sordid offenses. At least you could frighten them. But these disreputable intellectuals were forever breaking down all sense of authority in him. Nour El Dine considered himself a reasonable being; that is, he believed in the existence of the government and in the speeches pronounced by ministers. He had blind faith in the institutions of the civilized world. The attitude of Yeghen and his fellow men always disconcerted him; they appeared not to realize that there was a government. They were not against the government; they simply were not aware of it. ~ Albert Cossery

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. ~ Khaled Hosseini

You call that admiring? I call that eye rape. ~ Aishabella Sheikh

Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list. ~ Mengistu Haile Mariam

Ignorance is the biggest disaster on our planet ~ Nour Saidana

Neat little boys in neat little shirts, so earnest and wholesome, but hidden underneath their faces were old hags, skin pitted with acid. ~ Mariam Petrosyan

I believe the role of the writer is to tell society what it pretends it does not know. ~ Mariam Khan

the life of a slave must be different from a master but living life its self is the same ~ Mariam

For an hour or two every Thursday, when Jalil came to see her, all smiles and gifts and endearments, Mariam felt deserving of all the beauty and bounty that life had to give. And, for this, Mariam loved Jalil. ~ Khaled Hosseini

You will always have an audience, just don't let them interrupt your act. ~ Mariam

My father told us:
The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself. ~ Mariam Cheshire