These Europe quotes will inspire you. Europe is a landmass variously recognized as part of Eurasia or a continent in its own right, located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Europe quotes, Europe sayings, and Europe proverbs.
Best Europe Quotes
- “In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognize how precious is the peace we have built-in Europe since 1945.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
- “The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.” ~ Jacques Chirac
- “A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood… A day will come when we shall see… the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“Europe is a collection of free countries.” ~ Douglas J. Feith
- “Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.” ~ Eddie Izzard
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“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” ~ Steven Chu
- “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “I’m not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn’t owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.” ~ Tony Blair
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“Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.” ~ Jean-Pierre Raffarin
- “We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.” ~ Robert Mugabe
- “I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We’ve always said German unity, European unity and integration, that’s two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.” ~ Angela Merkel
- “Morality in Europe today is herd-morality” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South-Eastern Europe.” ~ Ibrahim Rugova
- “But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” ~ Edmund Burke
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“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.” ~ Leonid Brezhnev
- “Europe cannot survive another world war.” ~ Christian Lous Lange
- “Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.” ~ H. A. L. Fisher
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“Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.” ~ Ulrich Beck
- “To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.” ~ Madeleine Albright
- “The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.” ~ Jacques Delors
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“Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.” ~ Heinrich Himmler
- “Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man’s life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.” ~ Lafcadio Hearn
- “The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.” ~ John Monks
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“Remember one thing – that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.” ~ Goran Persson
- “Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn’t take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren’t interested in it.” ~ Norman Granz
- “Europe has to address people’s needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.” ~ Peter Mandelson
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“The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.” ~ Heinrich Himmler
- “And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.” ~ Philippe Perrin
- “It’s been President Clinton’s dream that we’ll have finally a fully integrated Europe.” ~ Warren Christopher
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“I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I’m in Europe. I’m always shocked that I’m still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago.” ~ David Coverdale
- “Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.” ~ Minoru Yamasaki
- “If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.” ~ Tony Blair
- “More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.” ~ Joseph Lelyveld , Europe quotes about travel
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“In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.” ~ Dennis Banks
- “We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.” ~ Phil Collins
- “Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.” ~ Jackie Kennedy
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.” ~ James Joyce
- “When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don’t like it you can change it.” ~ Tony Benn
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“Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.” ~ Otto von Bismarck
- “We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.” ~ Dan Quayle
- “We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.” ~ Gene Tierney
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“France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America, they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here… is France, and we’re in the middle – that’s my map of Africa.” ~ Otto von Bismarck
- “This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It’s not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It’s not an intellectual cinema in America.” ~ Jacqueline Bisset
- “Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.” ~ Jackie Mason
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“I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.” ~ Barack Obama
- “Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.” ~ David Rockefeller
- “When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.” ~ Norman Rockwell
- “Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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“Europe and the U.K. are yesterday’s world. Tomorrow is in the United States.” ~ Tiny Rowland
- “Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.” ~ Juan Carlos I of Spain
- “I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.” ~ Enya
- “The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof” ~ Mary McCarthy
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“It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.” ~ Julien Benda
- “The tragedy of 9/11 galvanized the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.” ~ Douglas Hurd
- “Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.” ~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
- “Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.” ~ Gijs de Vries
