Moscow Quotes

“Best view of Moscow is from the belly of the bomber.”

“Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.”

“Moscow”

“You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb (2006)”

“Wikivoyage: -inline”

“Wall Street says I am an agent of Moscow, and Moscow says I am an agent of Wall Street.”

“Greetings, glorious capital,
Heart of the Motherland - Moscow!
The whole country is proud of you.”

“When it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead.”

“When I first visited Moscow in the late 1980s, I was so intimidated. I thought I could be checkmated by every cabdriver.”

“Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.”

“Newspaper headlines from Moscow to Washington and Sydney to Kiev all agree: the cold war is back. Well, maybe”

“That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.”

“The hotels are entirely run by the Moscow Soviet, which seems to have picked its employees rather for their political reliability than for their experience or cleverness at hotel management.”

“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.”

“We have no idea whether there were any other strange occurences in Moscow that night, and we have no intention of trying to find out, since the time has come for us to proceed to Part Two of this true narrative. Follow me, reader!”

“When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!”

“The capital of the Russian Federation shall be the city of Moscow. The status of the capital shall be established by federal law. Another city defined by a federal constitutional law can be the place of residents of certain federal bodies of state power.”

“To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.”

“Here are luxury and penury, abundance and the most extreme deprivation, piety and atheism, … and an unbelievable frivolity—warring elements which, out of their constant conflicts, create this marvelous, outrageous, gigantic whole which we know by its collective name: Moscow.”

“The Bolsheviki under Lenin's leadership, however, succeeded in capturing control of the armed forces in Petrograd and later in Moscow and thus laid the foundation for a new dictatorship in place of the old Czarist dictatorship.”