Stalingrad - Virtual tour to Mamaev Hill, history of the Stalingrad Battle.
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Volgograd For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Volgograd
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Volgograd A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Volgograd
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Volgograd In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Volgograd
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Volgograd "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Volgograd
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Volgograd This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Volgograd
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Volgograd Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Volgograd
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Volgograd "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Volgograd
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Volgograd "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Volgograd
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Volgograd The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Volgograd
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Volgograd Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Volgograd
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Volgograd Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Volgograd
