Russian Quotes
489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors
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In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck,…
— Suzy Menkes
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I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian…
— Andrew Scott
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I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use…
— Sarah Parcak
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NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian…
— Noam Chomsky
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Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable…
— Stanley B. Prusiner
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Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the…
— Elliott Abrams
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Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
— Paul Watson
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I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
— Bobby Fischer
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It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But…
— Martin Rees
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King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance…
— Stephen Kinzer
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The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
— Stephen Kinzer
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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
— Robert Gottlieb
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When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came…
— Robert Gottlieb
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It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.
— Lucas Till
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
— Victor Ponta
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The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric…
— Yahya Jammeh
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
— Paul Cook
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I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec, and if Quebec…
— Michael Ignatieff
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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in…
— Cheech Marin
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I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who…
— Hillary Clinton
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Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do…
— Joe Biden
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In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come…
— Kathryn Lasky
Who Wrote These Russian Quotes
377 authors contributed a total of 489 Russian Quotes, led by these top contributors: