Poland Quotes

I am obsessed with the process of creation. — Zdzislaw Beksinski

If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like? — P.G. Wodehouse

I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies. — Adam Mickiewicz

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel. — Jay Leno

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world. — Donald Tusk

Life is good, after all ... and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland. — Etty Hillesum

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? — Steven Wright

He (Frederick II) famously describe Poland as an 'artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf — Christopher Clark

I served the Poland that existed. — Wojciech Jaruzelski

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire. — Nancy Willard

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create. — Alan Furst

We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave? — Margaret Thatcher

One lajdak doesn't make a Poland. Keep quiet, pretty boy, eat your candy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin. — Marguerite Poland

Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again. — Adolf Hitler

Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past. — Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. — Bette Midler

In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian. — Konstantin Rokossovsky

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War. — Ewa Kopacz

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am FREEDOM. — Adam Mickiewicz

If I could just get to Poland everything would be okay. — Jim Rohn

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. — Simon Wiesenthal

She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country. She is Poland. — Ruta Sepetys

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms. — Victor Ponta

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally. — Donald Tusk

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it. — Gordon Gee

However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland. — Aleksander Kwasniewski

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives — Fannie Flagg

The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. — Marek Hlasko

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy. — Lech Walesa

JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere. — Alfred Jarry

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe. — George H. W. Bush

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk. — You Jin

We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds. — Stanislaw Pigon

The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races. — Karl Marx

Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory. — Marguerite Poland

United States of Europe will resemble USA, where the Poland state will be a lot more like Dakota than New York. — Przemek Skwirczynski

I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland. — Yuri Milner

2 Jewish women in New York. One says, "Do you see what's going on in Poland?" The other says, "I live in the back, I don't see anything." — Henny Youngman

It's a secret. My previous best friend suspected, and now she's at the bottom of a well. (Not really. She's in Poland. I had nothing to do with it — Laini Taylor

The fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia. — Brian Zahnd

All is well," I said as soothingly as possible. "The Maginot Line is secured, the truce is agreed, and I have her promise not to invade Poland. — Jeff Lindsay

one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here"). — Diane Ackerman

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom. — Donald Tusk

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. — Rhonda Fink-Whitman

You're being nicer to me than I've been to you lately," I said.
"Yes, I am. But then, Hitler was nicer to Poland than you've been to me lately. — Molly Ringle

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941. — Roald Hoffmann

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil. — Barry Davies

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland. — Ken Follett

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews. — Rhea Perlman

the Baltic states (Poland, Belarus, and the Ukraine), — Fred Siegel

YES! STOP FIGHTING RIGHT NOW! POLAND NEEDS CARROTS TOO! — America

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. — John Mica

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland. — Fritz Todt

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland. — Suzanne Fields

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew). — Arthur Koestler

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. — Elie Wiesel

A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor. — James A. Michener

President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired. — Lech Walesa

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. — James A. Michener

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films. — Haruki Murakami

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars ... — Sylvia Plath

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money. — Malgorzata Szumowska

A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. — Irwin Shaw

One Cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland — Yitzhak Gruenbaum

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country. — Marek Hlasko

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms. — Lech Walesa

Conversations will lift-off when your impulse for personal expression becomes secondary to your interest in hearing from your significant other. — Jeremy Poland

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe. — Ivan Krastev

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country. — Donald Tusk

For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope. — Adam Michnik

I lay down on the shores of Pahlevi and wept — Martin Stepek

I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know ... I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland. — Woody Allen

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here. — Donald Tusk