Albanian Quotes

• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.

  Isa Boletini

  Spring, Too Much, Bones

  "The search for Greater Albania" by Paulin Kola, Hurst, London, (p. 1), 2003.

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• Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Father, Son, Men

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• …Spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

  Henry Noel Brailsford

  Kings, Men, Albania

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• There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

  Masiela Lusha

  Running, Blood, People

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Italian, Dawn

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• They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

  Edith Durham

  Past, Albania, Goes On

  "High Albania". Book by Edith Durham, 1909.

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• I know that there's this one Albanian myth that's always reflected on, and I think it reflects on the actual core culture. That myth is called The Besa. B-E-S-A. The Besa is a word that Albanians use to mean avow, but it's such a strong promise, that even past death, one cannot break that promise. It is unfathomable. So if you give someone your besa, life or death, heaven or hell, you have to fulfill that besa.

  Masiela Lusha

  Strong, Mean, Past

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Oil, Blood, Together

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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, Men, Numbers

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Long

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Struggle, Political, Different

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• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  Fatos Nano

  Country, Stupid, Class

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• [My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Tongue, Language

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Real, Government, Two

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• I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Catholic, India

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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