„Surprisingly, it is not like they say: "In this or in that country", no. There are beautiful women in every country.“
— Luis Miguel Puerto Rican singer; music producer 1970
Interview in Mexico, 1995
„This is a beautiful country.“
Last words (2 December 1859), as quoted in John Brown and his Men https://books.google.com/books?id=uiaYWp66b-cC&pg=PR1&dq=John+Brown+and+his+Men+%281894%29+by+Richard+Josiah+Hinton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Uub_VN3CN5HbggTdxIK4Cw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Brown%20and%20his%20Men%20(1894)%20by%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton&f=false (1894) by Richard Josiah Hinton, p. 397.
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„But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare—rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?“
— Walter de la Mare English poet and fiction writer 1873 - 1956
An Epitaph.
„To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate
That all compete for so beautiful a death.“
— Pierre Corneille French tragedian 1606 - 1684
Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,
Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
Horace, act II, scene iii.
Horace (1639)
„It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.“
— Diane Ackerman, buch A Natural History of the Senses
Quelle: A Natural History of the Senses (1991)
„Here lies a most beautiful lady,
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beautiful lady
That ever was in the West Country.“
— Walter de la Mare English poet and fiction writer 1873 - 1956
An Epitaph.
„That's the beauty of this country — we can have different opinions and coexist and be amused by each other and hurt and offended.“
— Sarah Jessica Parker American actress 1965
Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
„Translation: I am thinking of airtight windows! No other country can build such airtight and beautiful windows.“
— Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany 1954
Ich denke an dichte Fenster! Kein anderes Land kann so dichte und so schöne Fenster bauen.
Answering the question what emotions Germany arouses in her, Interview in the BILD-Zeitung on November 29, 2004
2004
„Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.“
— Pierre Trudeau 15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919 - 2000
Farewell speech to the Liberal Party http://www.primeministers.ca/trudeau/bio_9.php?context=b (14 June 1984)
„I may live in Beirut, but I think Egypt is beautiful and I feel like it’s my second country.“
— Layal Abboud Lebanese pop singer 1982
July 16, 2014; Interview by Insight Magazine http://www.insight-egypt.com/celebrities/layal-abboud/july-16/214
2014
„Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!“
— Abraham Cowley British writer 1618 - 1667
"Beauty," complete poem in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Samuel Johnson ed., vol. 7, p. 115.
„Your engineers are your great artists and these highways are the most beautiful things I have seen in your beautiful country…Out of them and the machine will issue the style of tomorrow.“
— Diego Rivera Mexican painter, muralist, Communist 1886 - 1957
On being enchanted by engineers in “Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals” http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1999/2/99.02.06.x.html (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute)
„Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.“
— Fritz Sauckel German general 1894 - 1946
Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.
„The country [ Brittany ] is very beautiful and painterly one see stimulating color tones; but the more abstract one works, the more one transforms the sketch into combinations.“
— Jacoba van Heemskerck Dutch painter 1876 - 1923
(translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018, original version, written by Jacoba in German:) Das land [Bretagne]] is sehr schön und farbig gibt es reizige Töne; je mehr abstract man aber arbeitet, je mehr man die Skizze zu Combinationen umarbeitet.
note on a postcard to Herwarth Walden [initiator of Der 'Sturm' in Germany], 14 May 1914; as cited by Arend H. Huussen Jr. in Jacoba van Heemskerck, kunstenares van het Expressionisme, Haags Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 1982, p. 18
1910's
„It had people from all over the country and the world. The great thing about Bombay as a city was it was a magnet for anybody with talent, or ambition or hunger, or beauty, or intelligence.“
— Jeet Thayil Indian writer 1959
On the variety of characters portrayed in his Narcopolis.
Kontext: It had people from all over the country and the world. The great thing about Bombay as a city was it was a magnet for anybody with talent, or ambition or hunger, or beauty, or intelligence. If you had any of these things and you wanted to make something of yourself, you went to Bombay and the city would reward you. I think all of that changed in 1992, when the last big riots happened in Bombay between Hindus and Muslims. Now when I go back to the city and I look at it, I can see the kind of profound impact that those riots had, and how it's changed the character of the city, and in such a profound way that I don't think it will ever change back to what it was before '92.
„I care not for these ladies,
That must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis,
The wanton country maid.
Nature art disdaineth;
Her beauty is her own.“
— Thomas Campion English composer, poet and physician 1567 - 1620
I Care Not for These Ladies (1601), reported in Arthur Henry Bullen, More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (1888), p. 48.
„How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!“
— Joseph Addison, buch Cato
Act IV, scene iv
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
„Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.“
— Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet 1844 - 1889
"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
„What we are pursuing is beauty, nothing but beauty. It's not true beauty if we didn't create it. Creating beauty with beauty is not true beauty either; real beauty is achieved by transforming the ugly into the beautiful.“
— Mo Yan, buch The Republic of Wine
Quelle: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section V
„The beauty! The beauty!“
— Junot Díaz Dominican-American writer 1968
Quelle: La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao
„In our land the educated poor, who at the most can only cycle or take short railway journeys into the country from an adjoining town, are fast losing their rightful heritage — the beauty of the country-side, which is rapidly disappearing with very little benefit to anyone. Apparently nobody but a few timid adherents of the Archeological Society cares a straw.“
— Harry Johnston British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator 1858 - 1927
As quoted in "Gleanings" by Mary V. Fuller, in The American City, Vol. I, No. 3 (November 1903)