Arabic Quotes: top 65 famous quotes about Arabic

Arabic Quotes & Sayings

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I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion — Isaac Albeniz

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous. — Freya Stark

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic. — Elliott Colla

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer — Naguib Mahfouz

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad. — Richard Engel

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it. — Craig Thompson

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. — John Updike

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God. — Rabih Alameddine

Myrrh (Arabic, "bitter") was used for the healing of wounds and bruises. Myrrh was also a symbol of self-sacrifice. [329] — Marianna Bartold

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. — Martin Amis

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me. — T.E. Lawrence

Language is the key to the heart of people. — Ahmed Deedat

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative. — Rabih Alameddine

Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth. — Yotam Ottolenghi

'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name. — Wiz Khalifa

Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page. — Ameen Rihani

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English. — Rabih Alameddine

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. — Stevie Wonder

I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine. — Stevie Wonder

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. — Bill Gates

An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul. My — Jenny Offill

May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike. — Paul Bowles

...literary translators are the interpreters of human values - and the true peacemakers. — Margaret Obank

Who wants to get cake? - Following a pop quiz — Graham Peterson

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman. — Shakira

I hate waiting on torture; an Arabic proverb says, "Waiting on torture is worse than torture." I can only confirm this proverb. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing. — Ibn Khaldun

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom. — Umar

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together. — Salma Hayek

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me. — Nadine Labaki

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being
very good — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand. — Hassan Blasim

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. — Brian Eno

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. — Naguib Mahfouz

The Semitic/Arabic word for [Deacon] is transliterated into English as, Shammaas; the Semitic tongue preserved its original form as, Shaman. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and ... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic. — Cote De Pablo

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love — Rumi

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim. — EL Seed

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. — John Abizaid

Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards — Jussi Adler-Olsen

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. — Omar Suleiman

There was general agreement that Brahe was correct, until Gell-Man taught the squad to swear in Arabic. — John Scalzi

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan

But where Moabite differed from Hebrew the difference pointed to Phoenician on the one side and to Arabic on the other, rather than Aramaic. — John Courtenay James

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic. — Laura Kelly

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. — Hakeem Olajuwon

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. — John Abizaid

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today. — Hassan Blasim

Arabic, like Greek, had been a scientific language early on, — Kim Stanley Robinson

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I've got Arabic music in my blood. — Stewart Copeland

because you are die surface of my sky.
My body is the land,
the place for you...
the pigeons fly
the pigeons come down... — Mahmoud Darwish

Abram - Ibrahim, in the Arabic spelling - was the first to worship Allah, the one God, rather than the stars, the moon, or the sun. — Susan Wise Bauer

The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic. — Joshua Cohen

You speak Arabic? Tell him my name is Infidel Redeemed by Christ. — Lili Tufel

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all. — Laura Poitras

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain. — Don DeLillo

As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West. — Rabih Alameddine

Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors. — Hunter S. Thompson

The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on — Joseph Needham

Beware to entertain strangers, thereby you may entertain an angel unawares ... New Testament. — New Testament In English/Arabic

I must persevere — Graham Peterson

key linguistic concepts and theories related to Arabic in a coherent way, — Karin C. Ryding

A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune."

Arabic proverb — Judy Hall

Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic. — Marissa Mayer