“As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.” WritingChildrenStoriesHouseSawsPiecesDadEuropeMumSydney Author:Markus Zusak
“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.” YearsRememberFilmFacesActorsGivenStarsKnownDestinySawsEuropeWindowPerformancesSouthHumanitarianPassingPassingsDestroyedShirtsConfusedRestaurantsSpainT ShirtDeanSwedenMoscowDiscoGreat FilmGreat PerformanceBogartGreat Humanitarian Author:Dennis Hopper
“American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe.” Has BeensImportantCountryStatesChristianReligiousUnitedUnited StatesIssuesSawsCitizensEuropeSilentNaziSymptomsAmerican CitizensImportant IssuesAustria Author:Maria von Trapp
“I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.” PeopleWorldMeanHomeSpiritualJesusSpeakLanguageGrowthSawsBasketballEuropeUniversalSpiritual GrowthPlaces In The WorldAway From HomePlaying BasketballRemote Places Author:DeLisha Milton-Jones
“She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.” MenSeemsCommonSawsBecomingEuropeSri Lanka Author:Sri Aurobindo
“When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on the other hand, return and say I had this slice of cake in Austria, let me tell you, I don't know how they make it! It was great!” PeopleKnowsHandsKnow HowSawsReturnEuropeLet MeJewEntertainmentTalesEtcCakeShoppingSiteAustria Author:Jackie Mason
“I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.” RememberGirlSawsDogCarWalkingOne DayEuropeWindowAccentsTeenageJacobTeenage Girl Author:Marc Jacobs
“The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.” YearsHas BeensEndsAgeLastsAmericaDifferencesForgetSawsPlanetsEuropeClimateDecadesIceCovered1930sNorth AmericaIce Age Author:James Spann
“Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.” WayMayDoeStatesLawPoliticalUsedMotivationReligiousUnitedUnited StatesSawsEuropeLaw EnforcementEnforcementExtremismExtremistMethodologyPolitical Extremism Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance
“The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.” WorldWayKindCountryHandsSpiritualNationsSawsStreetsLandEuropeIndiaCowsMysticalSnakesFountainExesViewpointsColonyCondescendingAnglo SaxonCharmersUnderdeveloped Countries Author:Kabir Bedi
“What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to what extent an immense territory, a whole continent, had effectively been reorganized into one city, and just like the cities of old. From that moment on, I became more interested in urban matters, in logistics, in the organisation of transport, in maintenance and supplies.” WarMatterWholeMomentsCitiesSawsEuropeThat MomentTerritoryImmenseContinentsUrbanOrganisationSuppliesTransportMaintenanceFortressesLogistics Author:Paul Virilio
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“You never really saw the racism in Europe in the past because it was so homogeneous. When everyone is blonde and blue-eyed, you don't see racism. But as soon as there was the beginnings of immigration, it just came out very dramatically.” PastSawsRacismEuropeBlueImmigrationBlondeHomogeneousBlue Eyed Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit stalls and the over-spiced meat. It was the beginning of the Orient. And when I flew back to Beirut from Iran, I could pick up the British papers, ask for a gin and tonic at any bar, choose a French, Italian, or German restaurant for dinner. It was the beginning of the West. All things to all people, the Lebanese rarely questioned their own identity.” PeopleAsksFeltSawsTreeIdentityPaperPicksEuropeAll ThingsWestFruitDinnerBritishCoffeeBarsMeatHeatRestaurantsIranItalianPalmsPapersFlewGinDampPalm TreesBeirutLebaneseGin And Tonic Book:Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War Source: Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War