Saturday, February 13, 2010

Someone once said...

"Berlin is poor, but sexy."
Klaus Wowereit, Mayor, in a press interview, 2003

"Berlin wird leben und die Mauer wird fallen."

"Berlin will live and the wall will fall."
Willy Brandt, Former Mayor of West Berlin and chancellor of Germany, 10 November 1989

“The greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine..”
David Bowie, singer, on 1970s Berlin

"Ich bin ein Berliner."

"I am a citizen of Berlin"
John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, 1963 while visiting Berlin

"“Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein”

"Berlin is a city condemned always to become, never to be."
Karl Scheffler, author of Berlin: Ein Stadtschicksal, 1910

"Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!"

"Nobody intends to put up a wall!"
Walter Ulbricht, Leader of East Germany, June 15th 1961 - 2 months before the Berlin Wall was built

"Paris bleibt Paris, sagt man, aber Berlin bleibt nie Berlin,”

"Paris will always remain Paris but Berlin will never remain Berlin!"
Jack Lang, French former culture minister, talking about how fast Berlin is changing, 2001

"Whoever controls Berlin controls Germany and whoever controls Germany controls Europe."

Lenin


“Die Mauer wird in 50 und auch in 100 Jahren noch bestehen bleiben, wenn die dazu vorhandenen Gründe noch nicht beseitigt sind.”

“The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed."

Berlin, January 19 1989

Erich Honecker, Head of the Communist Party who led East Germany from 1971-1989.


„Du bist verrückt mein Kind, du mußt nach Berlin.”

“You are crazy, my child; you must go to Berlin.”
Franz von Suppé (1819-95)

2 comments:

  1. Did you guys make the heart in the snow? :)

    Happy Valentine's Day!

    - Shannon and Jason

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  2. Technically JFK said "I am a jelly doughnut" but the Deutsch didn't care :-). Can I mention yet again how jealous I am of you getting to live in Germany!

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