Firoozeh Dumas quotes
-
“Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.”
-- Firoozeh Dumas -
“My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.”
-- Firoozeh Dumas -
“Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.”
-- Firoozeh Dumas -
“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”
-- Firoozeh DumasSource : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House
-
-
“Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.”
-- Firoozeh Dumas -
“In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.”
-- Firoozeh DumasSource : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House
-
“Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.”
-- Firoozeh DumasSource : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.72, Random House
-
“Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.”
-- Firoozeh Dumas -
-
“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your languageâ€. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiotâ€. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!â€. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”
-- Firoozeh DumasSource : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House
-
“Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.”
-- Firoozeh DumasSource : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.103, Random House
-
“It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people; it's how we treat one another. As you grow older, you'll find that people of every religion think they're the best, but that's not true. There are good and bad people in every religion. Just because someone is Muslim, Jewish, or Christian doesn't mean a thing. You have to look and see what's in their hearts. That's the only thing that matters, and that's the only detail God cares about.”
-- Firoozeh Dumas
You may also like:
-
Alexandra Fuller
Author -
Amy Tan
Film writer -
Anchee Min
Author -
Anne Fadiman
Author -
Azar Nafisi
Writer -
Claude Monet
Painter -
Erik Larson
Journalist -
Harun Yahya
Author -
Khaled Hosseini
Novelist -
Luis J. Rodriguez
Poet -
Marjane Satrapi
Novelist -
Mark Salzman
Writer -
Maz Jobrani
Comedian -
Michael Chabon
Author -
Michelle Huneven
Novelist -
Sadegh Hedayat
Writer -
Timothy Egan
Author -
Xiaolu Guo
Novelist -
Azadeh Moaveni
Journalist