Best Azerbaijan Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't like these outdated traditions.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.”

Death Poetry Poem Respect Traditions Azerbaijan

Author:Jabir Novruz

“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.”

World Life Poetry Destiny Fate Poem Azerbaijan

Author: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.”

Poetry Kindness Dreams Poem Azerbaijan

Author:Nigar Rafibayli

“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.”

Death Poetry Kindness Poem Azerbaijan

Author:Vagif Samadoghlu

“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?”

Life Poetry Sky Poem Azerbaijan

Author:Mikayil Mushfig

“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.”

Age Poetry Time Youth Poem Azerbaijan

Author:Samad Vurgun

“Before you trust your camel to Allah's protection, tie it fast on to your fence.”

Wisdom Islam Allah Azerbaijan Oriental

Book:Ali and Nino

Source: 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.”

Death Poetry Poem Birthday Year Azerbaijan 1941 Birth Year

Author: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.”

Poetry Turk Turkic Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh

Author: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.”

Turk Turkic Azerbaijan Turan Turkestan Azerbaijani Azeri

Author:Mehmet Emin Resulzade

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

Turk Turkic Azerbaijan Turan Turkestan Azerbaijani Azeri

Author:Ebulfez Elchibey

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

War Earth Poetry Humanity Peace Civilization Mars Pacifism Azerbaijan

Author: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!”

Poetry Poem Azerbaijan

Author:Samad Vurgun

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

Poetry Path Poem Road Azerbaijan

Author:Samad Vurgun

“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!”

Symbol Turk Turkic Azerbaijan Turan Turkestan Azerbaijani Azeri Elchibey Gray Wolf

Author: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.”

Hope Football Azerbaijan Aghdam Karabakh

Author: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.”

Football Azerbaijan Aghdam Karabakh Armenian Agression Fk Qarabag

Book:Offside - Football in Exile

Source: Offside - Football in Exile

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

Life Poetry Poem Azerbaijan

Author:Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh

“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.”

Poetry Nature Poem Mountains Azerbaijan

Author: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!”

Poetry Freedom Poem Azerbaijan

Author: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.”

Poetry Freedom Poem Azerbaijan

Author: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!”

Poetry Environment Poem Azerbaijan Zoo Elephant Rangun

Author:Rasul Rza

“A flag once raised will never fall!”

Turk Turkic Azerbaijan Flag Turan Turkestan Azerbaijani Azeri

Author: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.”

Army Russia Azerbaijan Russians Azerbaijani Azeri Yeltsin Elchibey Akayev

Author: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.”

Russia Soviet Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Azeri Elchibey Aliyev

Author: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.”

Azerbaijan

Book:Studentlər

Source: 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.”

Azerbaijan

Book:Studentlər

Source: Studentlər

“Yenilik ağrı ilə doğulur”

Azerbaijan

Book:Studentlər

Source: Studentlər

“Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.”

Ifs World War Force Demand Including Pleasant Defeated Adopted Commanders Stance Repercussions Conceited Unleashed Aggressors Truce Azerbaijan

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“Armenia categorically rejects the resumption of military hostilities in Nagorno Karabakh as an option. In case Azerbaijan resorts to military aggression, Armenia will have no other choice but to recognize the Nagorno Karabakh Republic de jure and to employ all its capabilities to ensure the security of the people of Artsakh.”

People Choices Cases Security Military Rejects Republic Capability Aggression Resorts Hostility Armenia Azerbaijan Resumption

Author:Serzh Sargsyan

“Three of our provinces have seen mass uprisings. The three provinces are Khuzestan, Azerbaijan, and Kurdistan. Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.”

Three Mass Massive Squares Demonstration Provinces Iranian Uprising Azerbaijan

Author:Akbar Ganji

“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.”

People Should Kind Self States Reason Political Courses United Accepting United States Perception China Prisoner Sweden Self Perception Political Prisoners Azerbaijan Detaining

Author:Julian Assange

“Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.”

Leader Normal Democratic Russia Inclination Procedures Authoritarianism Armenia Azerbaijan

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can capitalize indefinitely on this topic to underpin its legitimacy even in a situation in which democratic institutions are virtually eliminated.”

Political Strong Situation Influence Conflict Institutions Democratic Climate Obvious Topics Legitimacy Armenia Azerbaijan

Author:Garry Kasparov

“At the northern border of Azerbaijan, Daghestan by no means contributes to the democratization of the Caucasus.”

Mean Borders Democratization Azerbaijan Caucasus

Author:Garry Kasparov

“[Vladimir] Putin's Russia is only indirectly concerned with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a means of maintaining its sphere of influence. I doubt that Russia will meddle. Moreover, I'm quite sure that Ilham Aliyev won't decide to carry out any serious action - it's not in his interest. He's learned his lesson very well - threaten to take action but never act on such words.”

Wells Mean Action Interest Doubt Influence Serious Lessons Conflict Concerned Russia Spheres Maintaining Putin Armenia Sphere Of Influence Azerbaijan

Author:Garry Kasparov

“What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.”

People Two Home Millions Return Conflict Western Decades Portions Azerbaijan

Author:Ed Kashi

“As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections.”

Thinking Whole Process Successful Normal Election Democratic Azerbaijan Democratic Elections Election Process

Author:Ilham Aliyev

“Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.”

Want Energy Europe Agreement Ukraine Georgia Integrating Poland Azerbaijan

Author:Viktor Yushchenko