Quotes tagged ‘Polish’

(4 total)

“I grew up in a neighborhood and it was mostly Irish and Italian and Polish. So everybody went to mass. I was in a Jewish family, but we never had any religious upbringing. The closest I got to Jewish was, you know, they clipped the tip. That was it. I had no say about that at all.”

— Billy Joel, amazon.com

“Karl Zielinski: There is another opening in the Engineer Training Program. Mary Jackson: Flat head rivets would reduce wind drag. Karl Zielinski: Mary, a person with engineer’s mind should be an engineer. You can’t be a computer the rest of your life. Mary Jackson: Mr. Zielinski, I’m a Negro woman.…”

— Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Al Harrison, Kevin Costner, imdb.com

“What did the Polish man give to his wife that was long and hard? His last name.”

— Nerdowell, reddit.com

“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians i…”

— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org