Top 534 European Quotes

I should be European, man. I’m long and lean. I’d look good in a trench coat.
J. B. Smoove
I think I’m more European in personality.
Sally Kirkland
I am a very committed European.
Jose Manuel Barroso
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
Paul Hawken
Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.
Todd Rundgren
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey’s prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
John Henrik Clarke
We do not interfere in U.S. politics… and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
Federica Mogherini
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.
Giancarlo Esposito
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
Herbert A. Simon
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
Jonathan Sacks
I figure it’s a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal – that’s my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.
Andrew Luck
‘Avatar’ imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America’s foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.
Annalee Newitz
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. v

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
Guy Kawasaki
I think that it is becoming more and more clear that the European Union is an indispensable partner in some fields.
Federica Mogherini
If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.
George Osborne
You can’t understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can’t recognise biblical allusions.
Richard Dawkins
Some Korean models may be seen in European Fashion Week, but it is hard to find them in New York.
Sung Jin Park
I have a degree in European history, which didn’t necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I’m grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
Becki Newton
Tarantino’s movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they’re in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.
Richard Corliss
Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: ‘Nawal, why don’t you get a facelift?’ I tell them, ‘I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?’
Nawal El Saadawi
The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.
Richard Perle
We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women’s Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.
Mari Carmen Ramirez
Almost 85 percent of the Latin American market is subject to net neutrality rules, and the European Parliament already favors strong ones.
Marvin Ammori
The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
Federica Mogherini
We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
Federica Mogherini
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
Vijay Mallya
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Vladimir Putin
Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
Isamu Akasaki
In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots.
Norman Davies
I am strictly against a European superstate.
Jean-Claude Juncker
It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.
Jean-Claude Juncker
Turkey must feel at ease. It mustn’t say, ‘For me, it’s the European Union at all costs.’ That’s my view.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.
Lasse Hallstrom
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
Martin Van Buren
I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I’ve found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what’s happening.
George Duke
I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There’s European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
Henning Mankell
The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
Viktor Orban
General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro
I began to realize that, in spite of great achievements in wealth and military prowess, the great powers of Europe have not yet succeeded in providing the greatest happiness of the vast majority of the people; and that the reformers in these European countries were working hard for a new social revolution.
Sun Yat-sen
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
When I was at N.Y.U., I studied abroad in Prague, and I learned about some of the European animators, like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta. I didn’t think at the time that I would end up doing anything like that, but I certainly thought it was very cool.
Duke Johnson
We met our partners in Europe, and they are signaling to us that supplies from traditional European gas production sources is falling, and falling substantially. Without new volumes of Russian gas, they simply cannot cope.
Alexey Miller
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
John Hutton
There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and E

There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.
Christine Lagarde
The European nations’ loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly
Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today’s great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.
Nigel Lawson
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet – in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.
Richard Flanagan
I’ve created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I’ve worked with established brands.
David Guetta
We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.
Gerhard Schroder
There is a profound hypocrisy – and deep historical ignorance – when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.
Martin Jacques
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
Malcolm Gladwell
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
Wim Wenders
Public confidence in, and support for, the euro – and, indeed, the European Union – will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.
Enda Kenny
Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there’s a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
Philip Kaufman
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
Charles Lyell
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel… it is a product of both British and Stalin’s anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
Tom Paulin