Lebanon Quotes

• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Sheep, People

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

  Saad Hariri

  Country, Writing

  15 Copy quote

• Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Organization, Hezbollah

  15 Copy quote

• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Paris

  58 Copy quote

• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Real, Believe, Firsts

  6 Copy quote

• I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

  Greg Kinnear

  Moving, Thinking, Parent

  3 Copy quote

• Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

  Dwight Schultz

  Smile, Photography, Mean

  7 Copy quote

• The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

  Alcee Hastings

  Israel, Organization, Hezbollah

  83 Copy quote

• Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.

  John Conyers

  World, Violence, Should

  20 Copy quote

• My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Years, United States

  9 Copy quote

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Oil, Worry, Leader

  45 Copy quote

• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Christian, Struggle, People

  76 Copy quote

• Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Destiny, Games, Long

  6 Copy quote

• The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Beauty, Death

  69 Copy quote

• 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.

  June Jordan

  Country, Travel, Years

  5 Copy quote

• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  Rafik Hariri

  Israel, Agreement, Want

  8 Copy quote

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Powerful, Israel

  7 Copy quote

• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Resistance, Divided

  6 Copy quote

• The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

  Michael McCaul

  Israel, Iran, Holocaust

  86 Copy quote

• Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

  Brit Hume

  Night, Organization, Tuesday

  6 Copy quote

• The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

  Robert Fortune

  Character, Two, Feet

  Robert Fortune “A Residence Among The Chinese”, Lulu.com

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Able, Return

  "An Interview With Bashar Al-Assad". Interview to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, www.memri.org. June 12, 2000.

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who liberated the south from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Israel, Allegiance, Shows

  "Disarming questions" by Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  Zach Wamp

  Islamic, Israel, Iraq

  6 Copy quote

• We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

  Jim DeMint

  Long, Support, Benefits

  7 Copy quote