Quotes About Riga

#1. My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

#2. Off Castle Garden, a mile to the southeast, near the western edge of Governors Island, a ship lay resting through a foggy spring night before the long and arduous trip back to the old world - whether Riga, Naples, or Constantinople is not certain.

Mark Helprin

#3. Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#4. Home to your own people. How nice! I have no people to go to. I have one sister, who lives with her husband at Riga. She is my only relation, and I never see her.

Anthony Trollope

#5. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.

Andrey Kurkov

#6. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Alan Perlis

#7. So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve human intention.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Stephen Covey

#9. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. If somewhere I am honest that's in the "On The Record", short story, but can you handle it?

Deyth Banger