Lithuania Quotes

• 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

  Eyebrows, Wipe, Language

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• 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

  War, Thinking, People

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• Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Responsibility, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.

  Alante Kavaite

  Country, Strong, Media

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Giving, Effort, Promise

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Wall, Military, Ukraine

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I ran for president because I wanted to help Lithuania and its people during a difficult time. My country was on the very edge of an economic crisis, and people were disappointed by the economic situation and the political elite. We all needed change and motivation to consolidate our efforts in order to overcome the difficulties.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Motivation, Order

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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

  Europe, Care, United States

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, People, Half

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Islamic, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Winter, Apples

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

  Antony Sher

  Grandparent, South, South Africa

  "Antony Sher: 'Painting and writing stop me going crazy'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Boys, Want, Arms

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