Francois Mauriac Quotes

Ich bin ein Berliner. (I am a Berliner.)

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I like Germany so much that I want there to be two of them.

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again.

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.

This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom…. When you, the German people, tore down that wall—a wall that divided East and West; freedom and tyranny; fear and hope—walls came tumbling down around the world. From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed, and the doors of democracy were opened.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

Dad's astute knowledge of foreign policy impressed Gorbachev during the time of the Berlin Wall when Dad refused to gloat during the reunification of Germany.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something that's in your experience.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

I was 14 when the wall came down, so I only ever knew about the GDR or experienced it as a kid. I lived very far away from it, and you only ever thought about the GDR when you saw the Olympics, because you were like, "How are they always winning?!"

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely