Berlin Quotes

177 Berlin quotes by 149 unique authors

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased… — Paula Radcliffe
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of… — Salman Rushdie
I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring… — Carlos Santana
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just… — Bruce Sterling
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. — Lech Walesa
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for… — Vladimir Nabokov
...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World… — Lemmy Kilmister
Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't… — Janet Fitch
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus… — Cassandra Clare
He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union .… — Anthony Horowitz
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and… — George Orwell
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and… — Gene Kelly
Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of… — Janine di Giovanni
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former… — Loretta Napoleoni
I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination. — Daniel Bruhl
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in… — Daniel Barenboim
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved. — Lucy Walker
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin. — Marcus Samuelsson
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location. — Alex Ebert
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall… — Henry Rollins
Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus?… — P.J. O'Rourke
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in… — Vladimir Bukovsky
Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris… — Andy Behrman

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