Danube Quotes

Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.

Howard Dietz

Death, Goodbye, Kissing

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Do you recall that night in June
Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the ländler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.

Charles Hamilton Aide

Summer, Night, June

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace, Men, People

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History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Claudio Magris

Migration, States, Difficult

Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

P. G. Wodehouse

Blue, Tea, Muffins

P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature and Romanian culture in general. Along with focusing on the literature of the countries the Danube traversed (with an emphasis on Romania), we printed work that interested us from the banks of the Seine: French and French-Romanian authors like Cioran and Fondane. We dedicated our last edition to surrealism and Esthetic Onirisme.

Dumitru Tepeneag

Country, Culture, Literature

Source: therumpus.net

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