Bulgaria's Quotes

#1. We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

Margaret Thatcher

#2. I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Georgi Parvanov

#3. Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

Shimon Peres

#4. Good times are always where I am. I feel bored if I'm not there.

Ivan Slavkov

#5. Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, Hungary still cannot easily escape its past:

Robert D. Kaplan

#6. I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

Leah LaBelle

#7. I just wish the people in this country would start wearing some brighter colors. It's so goddamn depressing here.

Annie Ward

#8. Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

Joan Cusack

#9. I feel good ... considering I managed to wake up.

Ivan Slavkov

#10. If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

Kerry Greenwood

#11. Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.

Sean Mahon

#12. There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

Todor Zhivkov

#13. Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

Shimon Peres

#14. Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

Dwayne Andreas

#15. Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.

Garth Greenwell

#16. I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

Dimitar Sasselov

#17. The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.

Ivan Slavkov

#18. Um ... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

Rachel Nichols

#19. Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.

Bill Bryson

#20. Amazing that you can get a cappuccino at a gas station in L.A. at four in the morning and you can't buy a stamp at the post office in Sofia.

Annie Ward

#21. For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#22. I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me!
(on Valeri Bojinov)

Hristo Stoichkov

#23. Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Jacques Chirac

#24. Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

Ivan Krastev

#25. Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

Kevin Keegan

#26. There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.

John Rhys-Davies

#27. We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.

Georgi Parvanov

#28. I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

Christo

#29. It's a tradition to drink rakia with snacks. Not like the Russians, you know, who just drink to get drunk. I like a little snack with the news.

Annie Ward

#30. Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#31. I managed to convince myself that I'd left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from? they ask. Does it matter? I answer.
But it does.

Kapka Kassabova

#32. Forty-five years, these people were provided for. Not with much, you understand, but there weren't beggars in the streets or homeless people. Now everyone must figure out a new way to make a living. Selling hats or popcorn or flowers or coffee, there's not much difference. They're scared.

Annie Ward

#33. I am happy! I'm leaving on a trip and my wife is staying in Bulgaria.

Ivan Slavkov

#34. You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn't require much effort.

Dimitar Berbatov

#35. A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

S.J Perelman

#36. Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Anatoly Karpov

#37. I am satisfied with everything in my life. Including the fact that I spent time in jail.

Ivan Slavkov

#38. In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.

Katherine McNamara

#39. Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

Robert Benchley

#40. Stephanie Plum: Do you have your stun gun and pepper sray?
Lula: Does a chicken have a pecker? I could invade Bulgaria with the shit i've got in my handbag.

Janet Evanovich

#41. I like marriage. I've been married three times.

Ivan Slavkov

#42. Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

Todor Zhivkov

#43. I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended.
(on his former club CSKA Sofia)

Hristo Stoichkov

#44. The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

John Mica

#45. Prosperity is always built on slave labor. Ask any Ameri-can't. Or Bulgari-can. Yes, we can, eat from a trash can...

Will Advise