Quotes About Hungary

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'

other nations throughout Europe have built their own territory markers, including Spain, Greece, Norway, Hungary, Macedonia, and Austria. Are these countries racist? Are they building walls in the name of racism? Of course not.

A great Austrian painter -- he lives in a forest in Hungary -- came by the apartment one day with his daughters, both red-headed with pigtails, pale-faced, silent. They wore the kind of clothes you can't buy in any shop, you have to get them delivered direct from the turn of the century.

Chasing CEU out of Hungary marked the start of a new era for Orbán, said Liviu Matei, CEU's provost. "A line has been crossed. People are being forced out of the country. This is not restriction any more, this is repression. In Hungary, the reign of repression has been started."

There are exceptional moments in history, which show with clarity ? and often with brutality ? that what happens in or around universities is symptomatic of profound, unresolved troubles in the broader society. Hungary is traversing such a moment.

Yet despite the threats from states – including in Hungary – they remain the only institutions that can guarantee universities' autonomy. The key is in the hand of the state. It can turn it on, it can turn it off.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

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.

THE WAR OF WILLS BETWEEN HUNGARY AND POLAND ON ONE SIDE and the EU on the other is an important test of where extreme nationalism will lead.

He (Friedrich Engel de Jánosis) stated clearly that he was the last Engel de Jánosis, when in fact he knew he was not. He left behind his mother, wife, and daughter, all of them Engel de Jánosis. And then there were the Hungarian Engel de Jánosis, his aunts, uncles, cousins still alive in Pécs and in other towns and villages in Hungary. He knew this. They were not dead, not yet anyway, but in his mind, they were. Already, the historian was rewriting history.

In Hungary, in Szentendre, there is a cafe they call Nostalgia. They serve coffee with cinnamon there, and I seem to be having cinnamon in my coffee more and more often.

I found it impossible to tear myself away from my station and plunge into Hungary. I feel the same disability now; a momentary reluctance to lay hands on this particular fragment of the future; not out of fear, but because, within arm's reach and still intact, this future seemed, and still seems, so full of promised marvels.

Tisto, ?emur nekateri pravijo korupcija, je v resnici visoka Fideszova politika. Ho?em povedati, da si je vlada zadala, da bo ustvarila skupino doma?ih podjetnikov, ki bodo postali stebri mo?ne Madžarske.