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Quotes About Europe

Wars have an unpleasant habit of evolving in ways that none of the participants anticipated. When, in the summer of 1914, Europe resounded with cries of "A Berlin!" or "Nach Paris!", no one imagined the Somme, or Verdun, or the starvation blockade of Germany that killed 750,000 civilians.
~ William S Lind
For several centuries, the people in Europe, North Africa, North America and Western Asia depend on Elderberries for treatment of coughs and bacterial infections. Elderberries contain powerful antioxidants, vitamins A, B, and C, quercetin, flavonoids, carotenoids, and amino acids. Researchers continuously study the nutritional benefits and medicinal functions of Elderberry for variety of illnesses.
~ William Wagner
But Europe at that time was thrilled with joy,France standing on the top of golden hours,And human nature seeming born again.
~ William Wordsworth
Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia…. So now this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.
~ Winston Churchill
It was one of the bloodiest battles in history, and one of the most historic. Kursk is generally viewed as the turning point in the Second World War in Europe, for the Germans never again launched a successful offensive.
~ Winston Groom
I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
~ Wolfgang Puck
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
~ Yannick Noah
Related to the trend of expulsion was a third event, the "Black Plague" of the 1340s, the devastating contagion that killed tens of millions of people, diminishing Europe's population by as much as 50 percent. Jews were not only among the victims of the plague. They were also falsely accused of spreading the plague by various means, including by poisoning wells.
~ David N. Myers
The baby carriage is the sorriest joke in Europe today, for you never see a baby in one. . . . Instead they are filled with pots and pans and tools, and all the impediments of nomads.
~ David Nasaw
Lindbergh did as he was asked, wrote the report, and presented in it the most frightening scenario imaginable: "For the first time in history a nation has the power either to save or to ruin the great cities of Europe. Germany has such a preponderance of war planes that she can bomb any city in Europe with comparatively little resistance. England and France are far too weak in the air to protect themselves.
~ David Nasaw
Prior to 1914 socialists had not only expected the breakdown of bourgeois society, but had also warned that the breakdown might assume the form of a devastating European-wide and even global war. Far from welcoming such a war as an essential precondition for socialist revolution, the great Marxists of the pre-1914 era placed the struggle against imperialist militarism at the center of their political work.
~ David North
U.S. Army researcher Dr. F. Curtis Dohan was among the first scientists to notice a relationship between postwar Europe's food scarcity (and, consequently, a lack of wheat in the diet) and considerably fewer hospitalizations for schizophrenia.
~ David Perlmutter
After Sarajevo, after Srebrenica, we know what "Never again!" means. "Never again'' simply means "Never again'' will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940's. That is all it means.
~ David Rieff
Since 1945, "never again" has meant, essentially, "Never again will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940s.
~ David Rieff
Since 1945, 'never again' has meant, essentially, 'Never again will Germans kill Jews in Europe in the 1940s.
~ David Rieff
When the Templars came back from the Middle East, they brought back all this knowledge that had been lost in Europe during the Dark Ages. Medicine, science, astronomy, architecture, cartography. The Church hated it.
~ David S. Brody
the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind -- not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to movable type in its revolutionary implications for cultural values, technological change, social and political organization, and personality.
~ David S. Landes
Tabasco and other hot sauces, for instance, will render infected oysters safer for human consumption; at least they kill microorganisms in the test tube. Spices, then, were not merely a luxury in medieval Europe but also a necessity, as their market value testified.
~ David S. Landes
In Europe, corn (wheat) is the major crop, and a staple part of our diets
~ David Smith
These forced migrants were also promised freedom of religion, and were permitted to construct their own houses of worship. News of this decree spread widely along the frontier zones and in Europe as the Ottomans advertised—also in European newspapers—for immigrant families wishing to settle as farmers in the Levant.
~ Dawn Chatty
European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.
~ Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
~ James Marsters
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
~ Victor Hugo
They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.
~ Michael Leiter