Quotes About Danube

Thrace, a largely ungoverned territory to the east of Greece and Macedonia, stretched up to the river Danube

539, great numbers of them, called 'Huns' by Procopius, crossed the Danube

I made a resolution I would throw myself into the Danube if I didn't ask you to make love with me today.

This feeling of power, it's happiness to sit in a cottage by the Danube among six women who think I'm semi-idiot, and to know that in Paris, the headquarters of intelligence, 500 people are sitting dead-quiet in the auditorium and are foolish enough to expose their brains to my powers of suggestion. Some revolt! But many will go away with my spores in their gray matter. They will go home pregnant with the seed of my soul, and they will breed my brood.

Elle était libre comme les arbres, comme les vagues du Danube, comme le vent, comme les oiseaux. Elle était Tinka, l'enfant libre d'une race libre, une race qui n'était pas enchaînée par les entrelacs de la civilisation. La seule race qui n'était pas entrée dans le creuset du monde ni devenue un composant de son alliage

He understood now that the Romans had preferred death to exile. He could sympathise now with Ovid on the Danube, hungering for Rome and blind to the land around him, blind to the savages.

O Danúbio, pensei, era o Danúbio mas não era azul, era amarelo, a cidade toda era amarela, os telhados, o asfalto, os parques, engraçado isso, uma cidade amarela, eu pensava que Budapeste fosse cinzenta, mas Budapeste era amarela.

210 My father: a horse has four legs, and it still trips up. In the same way, the Danube has two banks, but they shot the Jews into it just the same.

The Danube, first recorded as the Danuvius, was named after the Celtic goddess Danu, whose name means "divine waters". The Rhône, first recorded as Rhodanus, also incorporates the name of the goddess prefixed by the Celtic ro, or "great". The Rhine, originally recorded as Rhenus, is a Celtic word for "sea way".

The Magyar invasion and settlement of Hungary had the important result of driving in a wedge which henceforth permanently separated the Slavs to the south of the Danube from those on the northeastern frontier of Germany.

people. THE EARLIEST SETTLERS of the lands that lie within the heart of Europe between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube were the Boii, a Celtic tribe on the run from northern floods.

south of the Danube, by offering a spoonful of sherbet

the prettiest girl this side of the Danube River and the nicest person this side of anywhere.