Centuries Quote by Umberto Eco

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

— Isaac Mizrahi

“To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not…

— Gena Showalter

“I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks…

— Gerald Scarfe

“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”

— Bluto in Animal House

I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,…

— David Chipperfield

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in…

— Alan Greenspan

“[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our…

— Manfred Rommel

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

— Lee Iacocca

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

— Alan Shearer

“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans…

— Cynthia Ozick

Beating the Germans for the first time in our history was massive.

— Karen Bardsley

The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.

— Pietro Badoglio