Belgians Quotes

• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  Miranda Richardson

  Design, Personality, Eccentric

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• Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

  Kelly Miller

  Broken Heart, Paris, Broken Promises

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  May, Strange, Antimatter

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

  Rick Steves

  Perspective, Way, Bulgarians

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• All Gaul is divided into three parts.

  Julius Caesar

  Latin, Rome, Three

  De Bello Gallico bk. 1, sec. 1

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• Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

  Patricia Briggs

  Italian, Engineering, Cooking

  Patricia Briggs (2006). “Moon Called”, p.159, Penguin

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• In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

  Robert Stack

  Believe, Air, Wings

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

  Emma Donoghue

  Heart, Chocolate, Way

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• In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

  Erich Fromm

  Baby, Real, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Educational, Government

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• I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Believe, I Believe, Genes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Eye, Artist

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• Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.

  Simon Kuper

  Soccer, Country, Football

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• English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

  Jay Rayner

  Food, Wine, Rocks

  "Blessed are the cheesemakers?" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

  Winston Churchill

  Stars, Night, Race

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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• From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Keys, People, Understanding

  "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Science And Religion: Incompatible?, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It's not just Americans, it's the big countries. It's the biggest countries that tend to be ethnocentric or ugly. There are ugly Russians, ugly Germans, ugly Japanese and ugly Americans. You don't find ugly Belgians or ugly Bulgarians, they're just too small to think the world is their norm.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

  Mark Riebling

  Princess, Italian, Medicine

  "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

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• I knоw you're Belgian, that's whеrе thоsе waffles соmе frоm

  Alan Sugar

  Waffles

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• We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants; Northern Irish, Welsh and Canadians; Irish and German Catholics; Scots; Mohammedan Indians; Algerians; Portugese; Belgians; French. We put the Belgians and French there for spite; they could not have been dirtier than the Algerians and the Portugese.

  Robert Graves

  War, Taken, Order

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• I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Europe, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Coal, Pits, Alive

  "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

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• My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

  Celine Buckens

  Parent, Born

  "Celine Buckens’ Horse Sense". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%) or Twa (1%). The identity cards made it virtually impossible for Hutus to become Tutsis, and permitted the Belgians to perfect the administration of an apartheid system rooted in the myth of Tutsi superiority… Whatever Hutu and Tutsi identity may have stood for in the pre-colonial state no longer mattered; the Belgians had made ‘ethnicity’ the defining feature of Rwandan existence.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Ethnicity, Order, Issues

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