Berlin wall Quote by Jeffrey Gettleman

“Courtesy of our millions, Mobutu became one of Africa’s worst disasters, ruling for decades like a late-stage Roman emperor.”

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“I remember, in former East Berlin, how startling it was to see the wall cut some streets. The street would go straight into the…

— Josip Novakovich

“the Berlin Wall failed to elicit a jubilant response on his part. He explained,”

— Oliver Stone

“In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America, where we…

— janet fitch

“The Wall had turned their street into a cul-de-sac where children roller-skated. Then in 1990 the Wall was cleared away piece by piece, and…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

“Did you know that some people wish the Berlin Wall had never come down?” said Esther. “That’s weird, isn’t it? Why would you want…

— Liane Moriarty

“he'd long ago accepted the fact that berlin more than suspected him. in a way it was his protection; he'd by no means won…

— Robert Ludlum

“After Egypt, Afrocentrists teach children about the glorious West African emperors, the vast lands they ruled, the civilization they achieved; not, however, about the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively…

— Michael B. Oren

“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,…

— Colson Whitehead

“The white man's cruelest trick was not to conquer or even enslave, but simply to soften, weaken and corrupt every culture or people he…

— Tom Cain

“It was all because of the Berlin Wall. If it weren't for the Berlin War, Cecilia would have never found the letter, and then…

— Liane Moriarty