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