And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another... Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

Khaled Hosseini
About This Quote

At the end of the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "I find that as I grow older, I pay less attention to the events of history and more to those of everyday life." The same can be said about this quote. The quote's meaning is largely lost to us today. However, we can make some educated guesses as to what he was up to. Most likely, he was reflecting on the U.S.'s own history and his own place in it.

He might have been thinking about his own country's tumultuous history and the way it has affected him personally. Maybe he was thinking about his own country's future and how he wanted to shape it. Or maybe he was just trying to illustrate how one must not judge a person by their appearance or outward success but by how they treat others and how they live their lives.

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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