East Germany At The 1984 Winter Olympics

Famous quotes containing the words winter, east and/or germany:

“The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Though all the East did quake to hear
Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
And all the West likewise did fear
To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)