Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Walland the lifting of the iron curtain, troublespots abound: the Middle East and parts… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! — Ferdinand Lassalle Copy Share Image
When I went in for 'The Good Doctor,' I had just been released from 'Berlin Station.' And when I got the initial… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The first time we played in Berlin, there was this guy who went into the show expecting Steve Perry. He was so… — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
