Quotes About Lithuania

#1. I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

David Schwimmer

#2. The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

David Attenborough

#3. A Lithuanian friend asked me what am I doing in Lithuania. If I knew the answer I would probably not be in Lithuania talking to her.

Robin Sacredfire

#4. It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.

Mark Rutte

#5. Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.

Elizabeth McCracken

#6. How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me

Ruta Sepetys

#7. When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.

Elie Wiesel

#8. It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...

Ruta Sepetys

#9. We belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

#10. Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

Rachel Sklar

#11. My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

David Lee

#12. Simplicity is really hard.

Jonathan Ive

#13. Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I've decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.

Alfred Jarry

#14. Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Peter Hoeg

#15. The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

Agnes Repplier

#16. The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#18. If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

Sy Montgomery

#19. In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

Jonas Mekas

#20. Lithuanian nation must be saved, as it is the key to all the riddles - not only philology, but also in history - to solve the puzzle.

Immanuel Kant

#21. I'm a big eater.

Michelle Kwan

#22. Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

Jane Hirshfield

#23. Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Ken Danby

#24. Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#25. it's never good to pass on your fears to the ones you love, you might keep them from discovery, and discovery is what life's all about." Later

Nancy Baker

#26. My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Antony Sher

#27. Reinforcement is being right.

B.F. Skinner

#28. To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#29. She knew precious little about Lithuania, she realized, and her ideas had run along the lines of Soviet concrete ghettos, TB-infected prisons, and a callous mafia. Somehow,

Lene Kaaberbol

#30. A cat's body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying," Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. "You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission." Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

Rachel Vincent