favorite/best quotes you have heard

[jessoussi]

i'm pretty damn sure i posted my reply in here, but i can't find it anywhere!
oh well...it's the one by william saroyna, "go ahead, see if u can destroy armenia, for when two armenians meet anywhere in the world, they will form a new armenia" tahts all i know but i like it!

[ArmoBarbi]

Hey, I actually heard that whole thing once. I like it too!

[rabinovich]

Armenian quotes - all Arthur Meschian's work can go as one big Armenian quote. His language is beautiful too...

Let me find some particularly nice phrases:

...Vaxcir erb demkd e misht zhptum
Bayc karyuni xxichd nersen
Erb kkises hacy mardun
Bayc aryan ham kga hacen...

...Erb vor shahes bazum gandzer u haxtanak
Ev chakatit dnen voske harapsak
Hishir vor nax parki dapnin indz e trvel
Ev chakatis colky vchit hogh e hima...

...Tarorinak, tarorinak mard ararac,
Momi luysov xavari mej hamatarac,
Khalaces du tesilkner arevavar,
Kxarxapes ev xavarin ches havata...

...Vzit shxta ev teverid canr kapank
Du kporces arcivnerin vayel chaxrank
Ev ays kianki mec banti mej bazmakamar
Du kxextves - shxtanerid ches havata...

...Tarorinak, tarorinak mard ararac,
Go dzerkerov hoghin ktas kianker caxkac,
Kzgas demkid mahvan kamin ev hoghmavar
Kngnes anshunch - sakayn mahvan ches havata...

This last one was the best

There is much more, I just can't really read lyrics from songs easily, he uses lots of archaic language in there.

[winoman]

i'm pretty damn sure i posted my reply in here, but i can't find it anywhere!
oh well...it's the one by william saroyna, "go ahead, see if u can destroy armenia, for when two armenians meet anywhere in the world, they will form a new armenia" tahts all i know but i like it!

Yes its a great quote. You've got most of it pretty much.

I thin what he is saying is both true and a very important concept for us. To me it means that wherever we end up - we will thrive and prosper and be us. Thus - as sad as we are for the loss of our homes and lands (from Anatolia) - it is not what is supremely important - but our families and our communities - wherever they may be is where its at.

[rabinovich]

Here's the rough translation of the last Meschian's lyrics I posted:

Strange, strange creation is a man
With heavy chains tied to his neck,
He will attempt to immitate flight of an eagle,
Will fall down on the ground,
But never believe he has failed...

Thorns and needles will pin him
on his dusty roads,
But with the blood on his punctured hands
He will be searching for flowers' bright soul
Wailing and screaming,
But never believing in pain

Strange, strange creation is a man
He'll endow endless lives to the dead sands
And when the wind of the end
Blows onto his face,
He'll fall breathless,
Never believing in death...

(taken from http://www.razbirat.com/meschian/lyrics.html)

[jessoussi]

Hey, I actually heard that whole thing once. I like it too!

i've seen it on those golden and wooden plates...ya know? it's so cool.....i'm not all that patriotic, but it's just so awesome, i have to get it

[ArmenianKid]

"killing is like releaseing someone from thier own prisons"
---emporer meiji

"in the streets in the hills in the skys above. the waters out of reach, from the roof tops, we will fight and we will never surrender"
---winston chirchill.

[Tres Bien]

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere 'being'.

-Carl Jung

[Tres Bien]

It is better to suffer wrong than to inflict it.
-Democritus

[ArmenianKid]

"as long as thier are men there will be wars"
--andrew jackson.

and i like your avatar tres