Moscow Quotes

All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'

— Margarita Simonyan

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

— Fidel Castro

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I want to visit Moscow again and again in my life.

— Mohit Chauhan

If there is a specialty cocktail I enjoy, it's the Moscow mule.

— Scott Michael Foster

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

— Anatoly Chubais

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

— Alexei Navalny

I'm not a real central-Moscow kid. I'm not used to luxury stuff.

— Alexander Ovechkin

When I first went to Moscow, I had a chance to meet with some important people over there.

— Antonio Inoki

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be…

— Roman Abramovich

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to…

— Ronald Reagan

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

— Alexander Litvinenko

The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

— Garry Kasparov

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

— Garry Kasparov

We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.

— Francisco Franco

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and…

— Eduardo Paes

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow…

— Ivan Krastev

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need,…

— Dimitri Simes

Who did I fight? I fought terrorists. Who did I protect? I protected the whole of Russia so that people in Moscow…

— Ramzan Kadyrov

“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A…

— Leo Tolstoy

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it…

— Chris Hadfield

[In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever…

— Ross Perot

Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered…

— Oprah Winfrey

The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at…

— Rose George

Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute…

— Suzy Menkes

“None of the places where I grew up and live in my youth exist any longer: Tsarskoe Selo, Sevastopol, Kiev, Slepnyovo, Gungerburg…

— Anna Akhmatova

“How many inhabitants are there in Moscow? How many houses? Is it true that Moscow is called 'Holy Moscow'? How many churches…

— Lev Tolstoi

If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo…

— Hermann Broch

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow,…

— Roman Abramovich

I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the…

— Ian Astbury

The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is…

— Paul Virilio

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is…

— Timothy Garton Ash

“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented…

— Christopher Hitchens

Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back…

— Paullina Simons

“Wherever you look, everything is in a row: a seven-story pile abutting a three-windowed log hut hard by a fantastical L-shaped mansion;…

— Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…

— Christopher Hitchens

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded…

— Julian Barnes

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's…

— Dennis Hopper