European Quotes · Page 7

Ur pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

— Chita Rivera

I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

— Geert Wilders

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

— Alexandre Desplat

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

— Michael Pollan

I don't want to bring a European city or an east-coast city to the West Coast.

— Eric Garcetti

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

When I started, I learned the European style because that's what I wrestled the most.

— Cesaro

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that…

— Vaclav Klaus

I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

— Francois Hollande

When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a…

— Paul Haggis

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions,…

— Jaromir Jagr

European teams have always shied away from South American football. They struggle to get to grips with it. The South American game…

— David Trezeguet

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the…

— Tom Stoppard

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in…

— Anibal Cavaco Silva

Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary,…

— John Hutton

America and Europe are getting closer to each other. In the U.S. you've always had hip - hop, the blues, soul, and…

— Erik Hassle

The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after…

— Tariq Ali

“White, is not a race, it is a color, European, is not a race, it is a place named after the goddess…

— Ron McVan

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually…

— George Papandreou

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on…

— Tony Judt

The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there…

— Aurora Levins Morales

“Americans who want to perform in Europe face a cultural and vocal uphill battle. We’re considered good students, very professional and often…

— Renee Fleming

If you would have told me that I'd be in a European final back when I was at Maidstone then I wouldn't…

— Chris Smalling

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American…

— Monica Bellucci

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

— Mario Monti

There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.

— Sean Dyche

My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.

— Emily Thornberry

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

— John Henrik Clarke

We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.

— A'Lelia Bundles

Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

— Gavin Newsom

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

— Jacques Delors

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

— Roy Evans

It wouldn't be normal if a European champion wasn't one of the favourites to win the World Cup.

— Deco

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

— Clare Rewcastle Brown

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do…

— Andrew Luck

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

— Sammy Davis, Jr