Petersburg Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in…
— Alexander Alekhine
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I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the…
— Al Capone
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We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE…
— Orlando Figes
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As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if…
— Unknown Author
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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If…
— Peter Kropotkin
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It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.
— Unknown Author
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The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.…
— Unknown Author
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I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
— Anatoly Chubais
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
— Nicholas Stern
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Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in…
— Lynn Flewelling
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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and…
— Alfred Nobel
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
— Carl Spitteler
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The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told…
— Madonna Ciccone
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It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I…
— Tadashi Shoji
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For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling…
— Anna Netrebko
Who Wrote These Petersburg Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Petersburg Quotes as follows: