Ataturk Turkey Quotes & Sayings

Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams. — Sol Luckman

My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals. — Beth Ditto

I'm one of those guys that's going to show up to the field and try my best. — Marco Scutaro

I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly. — CeeLo Green

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor. — Sara Zarr

Without Ataturk's vision, without his ambition and energy, without his astonishing boldness in sweeping away traditions accumulated over centuries, today's Turkey would not exist, and the world would be much poorer. — Stephen Kinzer

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. — Mavis Staples

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915. — Ahmet Ertegun

The people who call you names are just trying to make themselves feel better. They've fucked up too. You're not the only one. — Kody Keplinger

I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read court transcripts, FBI files, stuff like that. You go through vast, boring stretches, but the voices are always so fascinating and slowly a story begins to emerge. It's very much like playing detective. — Zachary Lazar

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation. — Stephen Kinzer

In the end it will not matter how we have told our story, but only how God sees it. — Daniel I. Block

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge. — Howard Stern

Turkey's true master is the peasant. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory. — George S. Patton Jr.

I see who you are. You see only who you fear you might become." - Maggie to Tadhg — Kris Kennedy

The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation, — Eric Bogosian

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences. — E.W. Jackson

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep. — J.I. Packer

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure. — Hillel The Elder

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey. — Ahmet Ertegun