Quotes about arabic (16 Quotes)


    We'll be able to open a new channel through our other Arabic and Islamic and international community, to help the Palestinian people without condition. We are looking for this money, but this money should not be conditioned.


    And certainly We know that they say Only a mortal teaches him. The tongue of him whom they reproach is barbarous, and this is clear Arabic tongue.

    Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.



    I think she had to bank on the fact that she could connect in some way with her captors. Unlike most Western journalists, she spoke good Arabic. And if you look at her work, she comes across as compassionate, as balanced.

    When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

    You'll find businesses where you hear Arabic and Hebrew right next to each other. It's not perfect, don't get me wrong, but there is a high level of comfort, where people have reconciled. There are genuine friendships and genuine alliances across communal lines.



    I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

    And before it the Book of Musa was a guide and a mercy and this is a Book verifying (it) in the Arabic language that it may warn those who are unjust and as good news for the doers of good.

    I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.


    I don't care if I have a whole division full of lesbians, if they can do the job. Look, we kicked out a bunch of gay men who were linguists, Arabic specialists. What kind of stupidity is that




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