"The Epic Lay of Kossovo, sung from generation to generation by peasant bards to the strains of the stringed guzla in the remotest mountain glens and the busiest market places, has still been a common heirloom to the whole people. It has kept alive the tradition of national unity and green the memory of heroic deeds, and held up withal the traitors of the past to perpetual obloquy. The lesson brought homer by it is one which all members of the Southern Slav race take to hearth to-day. It is summed up in the Serbian motto 'Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava' - 'Union only saves the Serbs'."

- Article by famous British arcaeologist and author Sir Arthur John Evans who excavated the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos in Crete and uncovered evidence of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization, which he named the Minoian. The article was publised in The Times in connection to Kossovo Day on 28 June 1916, a day which was solemnly celebrated in England, involving newspapers, schools, churches, state institutions, etc.

Kossovo Poem

"There was a battle long ago,
Before America was dreamed and found
A battle fought and lost on Serbian ground
And known as Kossovo.

There was a Serbian king, Lazar,
Who, when offered earth or heaven by the Lord,
Led Serbians against the Turkish horde.
Chose an undying star.

Kosovo for five hundread years,
Was a battle never finished, till at last,
The mountains free, agony seemed to have passed
The place of skulls and tears.

But no, not yet may freedom go Redeemed.
Once more the Turks and heathen come
Across the broken bridge of Christendom
On the day of Kossovo.

Once more the hero calls to his men
And to unimagined armies from afar
And, by his death and by the undying star
Oh heaven, signals again.

And all the free have now one foe
And every freeman is a freeman's friend
We come Lazar, to fight and win and end
Your Battle, Kossovo."

- Poem by Witter Bynner written for the American edition of Kossovo Day on 28 June 1918.

"I identify myself as a Serb. In this world where Serbia is designed as a sanctuary for evil, this identification is only intensified."

- Quote from an interview in NIN Magazine in 2005 by prominent Serbian director Emir Kusturica. It was given around the time he had been baptised into the Serbian Orthodox Church on Đurđevdan (St. George's Day) as Nemanja Kusturica, which by many of his former Bosniak countrymen was considered as the final betrayal to his hundred years old ancestral roots.