Quotes about Poland

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In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ... — Sylvia Plath
I never thought that it would look like this. The October of 2009 was a difficult period, and not just because of the ba — Artur Fidler
We wanted to be free and owe this freedom to nobody. — Jan Stanisław Jankowski
And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more b — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
You are in a country that comes and goes, where the people have been mistreated but rarely oppose. Borders have changed — Sean F. Hogan, Painting Angels
Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future. — Józef Piłsudski
Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like a — Józef Beck
Anticipating their calamity and fright when deportation day came (August 6, 1942) he [Henryk Goldszmit, pen name: Janusz — Diane Ackerman
I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk. — You Jin, In Time, Out of Place
It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films. — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general po — in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.
We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds. — Stanisław Pigoń
There is one thing I like about the Poles—their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ec — Henry Miller, Sexus
Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritabili — Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper
An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence "by the sword" (as the metaphor — Hilaire Belloc, The Crisis Of Civilization
It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. — Rhonda Fink-Whitman, 94 Maidens
In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now h — Martha Gellhorn, The View from the Ground
Rampaging horsemen can conquer — only the city can civilize.
I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies. — Adam Mickiewicz, Forefathers' Eve