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Quotes About Luxembourg

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.
~ Andy Biersack
Jean-Claude Juncker, the proud architect of Luxembourg's massive corporate tax-avoidance schemes and now the head of the European Commission, has taken a hard line—perhaps understandably, given that he may go down in history as the person on whose watch the dissolution of the EU began.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
From Luxembourg, for instance, came a seventy-nine-year-old man with two grandsons, one fourteen, the other fifteen. They were now sharing the same luck, the same hardships, the same worries.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
though the antique Luxembourg Gardens suit me better.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The Nazi invasion didn't happen by the end of 1939 after all. The German seizure of the Low Countries—Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg—didn't occur until May of 1940, and Jacob was grateful for the extra months of training and conditioning. Maurice, Avi, and Jacob used the time to recruit and assemble the rest of their team of young Jewish insurgents.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
Luxembourg is the first adopter in Europe of a legal and regulatory framework recognizing that space resources are capable of being owned by private companies.
~ Etienne Schneider
I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.
~ Michelle Gomez
As there was no rational foundation for Frederick's complaints, and as he could not give evidence of any real misfortune, Martinon was unable to understand his lamentations about existence. As for him, he went every morning to the school, after that took a walk in the Luxembourg, in the evening swallowed his half-cup of coffee; and with fifteen hundred francs a year, and the love of this work-woman, he felt perfectly happy.
~ Gustave Flaubert
We will support the long-term economic development of new, innovative activities in the space and satellite industries as a key high-tech sector for Luxembourg.
~ Etienne Schneider
I didn't have the courage to let myself think or dream of acting because I come from Luxembourg - it's a very small country, and I think it's a place you need to get away from to see how big the world is and what's possible.
~ Vicky Krieps
I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.
~ Emmanuelle Seigner
Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit with Marius inside them. I suppose he was going to sit for an examination. He looked thoroughly silly.
~ Victor Hugo
I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
~ Mathias Rust
Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.
~ Jack Goldstein
I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
~ Mathias Rust
The country now has the second highest GDP per capita in the world after Luxembourg, and Luxembourg is hardly a proper country.
~ Michael Booth
When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already done what he was striving for—distilling places and people and objects to their essential qualities.
~ Paula McLain