Top 306 Moscow Quotes & Sayings

All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'

To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a Baltic country to meet me. But I have to expect that my papers would be confiscated in Moscow immediately, and that they would harass my family. I can still have more impact in the West with my books and lectures.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassina­tion when I saw his picture flashed on television.

There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.

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

I was told Moscow was the tough place and St Petersburg was the hip, happening, cultural centre of Russia. I've never seen so many miserable people in my life. If that was hip and happening, god knows what the vibe is like in Moscow.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment, Moscow is less than twenty miles away. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation.

I don't dwell on things. When I won the World Championships in Moscow, I came back - that was it.

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

I believe it is wrong to give Moscow a rebate on Ukraine sanctions because of Syria.

I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

I have always dreamed of bringing an exhibit of Mark Rothko to Moscow.

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

My favorite places in Moscow are the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art - it has a wonderful collection of Impressionists - the Justo club, and Sandyni Bath, which is the oldest bath house in Moscow.

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera moves to the right. Then comes Kiev, then Moscow and then everything stops. This seems to be the West's view of us - of a wild Russia that begins past Moscow, a place one prefers not to see. This is a big mistake. The West must pay closer attention.

Although Perm is one of the biggest cities in Russia it felt like a different kind of Russia. In Moscow, you have the Kremlin, St. Basil's, a lot of Soviet iconography everywhere. In Perm, it was a different side of Russia. A little more folksy. If Moscow is an iron statue of an eagle, Perm is a matryoshka nesting doll.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Right now, I see a lot of alarming trends inside Russia, especially in Siberia, which I represent in the parliament. People start to ask questions: If we mine all the natural resources - if we have all the oil, all the gas, all the coal, all the gold, all the diamonds - why the hell do we need central Russia? They are just eating at our resources. Without Moscow having a response for this, it would face very nasty questions such as one that was asked during my recent reelection campaign - it actually became a slogan of my campaign - "Stop feeding Moscow."

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

If there is a specialty cocktail I enjoy, it's the Moscow mule.

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

I'm not a real central-Moscow kid. I'm not used to luxury stuff.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

In Moscow, if you have money, you're king. If you don't - sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.

"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He won a British Press Award for his coverage of the 2002 Moscow theater siege in which 130 hostages were killed. He's covered Russian politics and the war in Ukraine.

An article in the 'Moscow Times' described Trump as the city's first grand builder since Stalin.

In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.

I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.