Azerbaijan Quotes

“Before you trust your camel to Allah's protection, tie it fast on to your fence.”
― Kurban Said, Ali and Nino

“I never wish to celebrate
The year of my birth,
For fear lest I wake,
By the clinking of glasses and noisy mirth,
All those who sleep in memory's vaults.”
― Isa Ismayilzade

“Nagorno Karabakh we sold, without the faintest sigh,
We auctioned off our factories until our wealth ran dry,
Now we are slaves or exiles, thieving strangers are our lords,
For whom our prostrate backs a wide and easy road affords.”
― Bextiyar Vahabzede

“A huge majority know nothing of the idea or ideal of the nation.
We remain without a compass and our society, like a group of lunatics, fights among itself.”
― Mehmet Emin Resulzade

“Even if you forget you're a Turk, your enemy will not.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey

“If there were no war,
We could construct a bridge between Earth and Mars
Melting weapons in an open-hearth furnace.”
― Mammad Araz

“A day that's free, a man that's free,
A spring like this invites a spree!
Seek out the shade of a plane tree
To spread a rug that's rainbow-spun-
And hail the country of the Sun!”
― Samad Vurgun

“Paths are long,
Paths are short -
Doest it make any difference
In what country,
Or on what path you lose your way?”
― Samad Vurgun

“We are a pair of dice joined together in the game of fate,
We never get along although we've rolled together for hundreds of years.

Millions of people share this tiny light,
The world belongs to you,
The world belongs to me,
The world belongs to nobody.”
― Mammad Araz

“With a generous heart,
With a mind that sounds the depths of existence,
Your dreams will not die,
Your thoughts will not fade.
If there is a divine light in your soul,
Hold it up as a torch
And from your tiny kitchen
You will be able to see the great world.”
― Nigar Rafibayli

“I don't like these outdated traditions.
I don't like this love for tombs,
I don't like this kind of respect,
I don't like it
I don't want this untimely honor,
I'd never change one moment of my life
For thousands of golden deaths.
I'd never change one ounce of respect while alive
For thousands of tombs when I'm dead.”
― Jabir Novruz

“It's the symbol of freedom (the gray wolf) for all the Turks. We are all Gray Wolves now, and Elchibey is the leader of a greater Turkic world!”
― An Azerbaijani officer

“Football’s power to unite can be stronger than its ability to divide though. For the people of Ağdam: as long as there’s football, there’s hope.”
― Arthur Huizinga

“The club survived though and became a symbol of hope and pride for over half a million refugees scattered across Azerbaijan, many of whom still live in temporary settlements within a few kilometers of the frontline.”
― Arthur Huizinga, Offside - Football in Exile

“O Time! It may be pitiless, or sad,
And now and it brutally shakes the earth.
If Time intends to annihilate you, my lad,
Go boldly forward, and fight for all you're worth.”
― Samad Vurgun

“Don't erect a marble stone upon my grave,
Nor a grand monument.
Just place a pair of shoes there
For someone barefoot to wear.”
― Vagif Samadoghlu

“Life is strange to those who know it,
But so familiar to those who don't know.”
― Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh

“With life that is an endless, lasting fight,
With kindling flames that rage in blood and heart,
With sun and moon, with morning and with night,
And with the sky's vast cupola, how to part?”
― Mikayil Mushfig

“Heydar Baba, when the thunder resounds across the skies,
When floods roar down the mountainsides,
And the girls line up to watch it rushing by,
Send my greetings to the tribesmen and the village folk
And remember me and my name once more.”
― Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar

“I don't want freedom gram by gram, grain by grain.
I have to break this steel chain with my teeth!
I don't want freedom as a drug, as a medicine,
I want it as the sun, as the earth, as the heavens!
Step, step aside, you invader!
I am the loud voice of this land!
I don't need a puny spring,
I am thirsting for oceans!”
― Khalil Rza Uluturk

“My freedom is beckoning the cowards,
To come out of their caves:
See the vast sky above
And breathe the fresh air that they crave.”
― Khalil Rza Uluturk

“I saw him for the first time in Rangoon
In the zoo.
In a colorful, grilled iron cage.
A lonely white elephant in an iron cage.
His eyes were black, as were his nails,
But he himself snow-white.
He looked at you in such a way
As if to speak.
One can rarely find a white elephant,
One can rarely find an elephant in captivity.
He left the forest a year ago,
And can't stand his heartache in the cage.
And very often
He raises his trunk and roars,
Shedding crocodile tears,
And calling on his free brothers
To help him.
They say that elephants live long lives.
White elephant, white elephant!
Do you need a long life
Imprisoned in a cage for a hundred years?
White elephant, white elephant!”
― Rasul Rza

“A flag once raised will never fall!”
― Mehmet Emin Resulzade

“Remember we Azeris had barely a single general. But I was the one who got the Russian army out of our country.
Remember, I talked in Turkish through a translator to Yeltsin, not in Russian, something that was never done before. Yeltsin once hit his spoon on Akayev's head, but I refused to let them do such things to me.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey

“I left the door open for Aliyev. I thought, he won't let Russia back in. Remember, Soviet Russia had crushed him and thrown him out.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey

“Bu anarxiyadan böyük bir şey doğacağına inanırdı. Düşüncəsinin birinci sırasını təşkil edən öz vətəni və öz milləti idi: Rüstəmbəy islamiyyət məfkurəsi ilə əlaqədar deyildisə, Turan idealı daşəyanlardandı.”
― Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli, Studentlər

“O, millət bir dildə danışan, bir ənənəsi olan, bir torpaqda yaşayan və bir ideal daşıyan yeknəsəq bir kütlə kimi təsəvvür edir və onun hürr yaşamağının tərəfdarı idi.”
― Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli, Studentlər

“Yenilik ağrı ilə doğulur”
― Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli, Studentlər