Nazr Quotes & Sayings

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence. — Nazr Mohammed

Don't hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed. — Anonymous

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. — Nazr Mohammed

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. — Nazr Mohammed

Flowers feed the soul. — Nazr Mohammed

I am indebted to the following colleagues for their advice, assistance, or support: Dr. Alfred Lerner, Dori Vakis, Robin Heck, Dr. Todd Dray, Dr. Robert Tull, and Dr. Sandy Chun. Thanks also to Lynette Parker of East San Jose Community Law Center for her advice about adoption procedures, and to Mr. Daoud Wahab for sharing his experiences in Afghanistan with me. I am grateful to my dear friend Tamim Ansary for his guidance and support and to the gang at the San Francisco Writers Workshop for their feedback and encouragement. I want to thank my father, my oldest friend and the inspiration for all that is noble in Baba; my mother who prayed for me and did nazr at every stage of this book's writing; my aunt for buying me books when I was young. Thanks go out to Ali, Sandy, Daoud — Khaled Hosseini

God is beautiful and He loves beauty. — Nazr Mohammed

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. — Wolfman Jack

Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third. — Nazr Mohammed

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul. — Nazr Mohammed

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries. — Nazr Mohammed

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. — Nazr Mohammed

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor. — Nazr Mohammed

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep — Nazr Mohammed

He who honestly instructs reverences God. — Nazr Mohammed

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil. — Nazr Mohammed

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt. — Nazr Mohammed

A lonely night is more profound then lonesome nights. — Santosh Kalwar

Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human, for him ever to be able to grasp their meaning. He could not disavow his actions, belauded as they were by half the world, and so he had to repudiate truth, goodness, and all humanity. — Leo Tolstoy

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you. — Mark Twain

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it. — Nazr Mohammed

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come. — Nazr Mohammed