Edin Dzeko Quotes

I was born and raised in war.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

There are worse things than war.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.