Odessa Quotes

• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Teenager, Believe

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Believe, Men, Cities

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.

  John Berger

  Sex, Cities, Age

  1987 In The Guardian, 27 Mar.

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• A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

  Harold Bloom

  Moving, Cities, Celebration

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• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Texas, Curiosity, Tiny

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• At Odessa we became Texans, and proud of it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Proud, Texan

  "Is this my house?' Childhood home visit hints that Jeb is from Texas but not of it" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.

  Edward Furlong

  Watches, Littles, Stills

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• The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishenev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.

  John Remsburg

  War, Names, Atheism

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Grandfather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

  Jay Hernandez

  Football, Texas, Hands

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• I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Real, Thinking

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