Best Leningrad Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten. Let no one forget. Let nothing be forgotten. Никто не забыт и ничто не забыто.”

Remembrance Forgetting Leningrad

Author:Olga Berggolts

“Наш "комендант" - ленинградец, и об этом говорят как о его личном качестве. И его вежливые "вы" ко всем, даже подросткам, и застенчивая молчаливость, готовность длинно и сложно объяснять то, что другой командир решил бы одним "да" или "нет" - все сливается для нас с понятием "ленинградец", окрашено им и окрашивает его.”

Leningrad Saint Petersburg

Book:Khatyn

Source: Khatyn

“And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.”

Children Made Eye Faces Laughing Daughter My Children My Daughter Face To Face Leningrad

Author:Billy Joel

“Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.”

Cities Russia Timelessness Leningrad

Book:A Writer's World

Source: A Writer's World

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.”

Term Remains Duality Leningrad

Book:In Leningrad

Source: In Leningrad

“I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.”

Art Mother Found Study Program Russia Forests Leningrad

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“It's a little hard to avoid putting both war and politics in, in that they both come into the activity, but on their own. My basic idea is to do a great love film set in the hell of 1942. At that moment, hell was Leningrad. Underneath all this, of course, is a film about dissension between the two most important countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union. I think it is a must at this point to talk about cooperation instead of the rancor and hatred and competition between nations.”

“The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.”

Giving Courses Reading Vision Cases Development Research Machines Aim Maps Target Continuing Linked Missiles Cruise Radar Drones Moscow Deployment Leningrad

Author:Paul Virilio

“[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.”

States Order Force Deals Break Regard Blow Aids Instance France Germany Attempting Frontiers Break Through Belgium Leningrad Latvia

Author:Joseph Stalin

“During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.”

Years Said I Can Faces Courses Names Behinds Heard Months Cold Terrible One Day Standing Ears Blue Prison Lips Terror Spokes Affected Seventeen Numbness Queues Leningrad

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.”

Way Feels Doe Whole Together Night Fall White Gone Forever Wall Goes On Walking Innocence Dawn Dusk Platinum Leningrad

Author:Paullina Simons

“And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.”

Streets Skirts Eyelids Leningrad

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.”

“We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.”

Young Forever Eating Summer Garden Ice Cream Ice Cream June Jasmine Forever Young Summer Garden Leningrad

Author:Paullina Simons

“Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.”

Moments Night Fall White Love You Summer Garden Falling In Love Falling In Love With You Summer Garden Leningrad

Author:Paullina Simons

“In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."”

Years Said I Can Waiting Lines Months Terrible One Day Prison Terror Crowds Seventeen Waiting In Line Leningrad

Book:Избранные Стихи

Source: Избранные Стихи

“If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.”

Ifs Politics Ought Checks Awful Nightlife Leningrad

Author:Glenn Frey