Persian Culture Quotes

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

There is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians.

Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.

Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.

I've got 50,000 Facebook fans inside of Iran, and Facebook is banned in Iran. I think the people who follow 'Humans of New York' the most after New York City is Tehran. I have a really special affection for the Persian people because they've really taken to my work.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.