Happy 777th Birthday Berlin!

777 Jahre alt und doch noch fast neu.

777 years old and you are still green.

Du bist verrückt mein Kind, du mußt nach Berlin.
Franz von Suppe

You are crazy, my child. You must go to Berlin.
Franz von Suppe

Berlin ist mehr ein Weltteil als eine Stadt.
Jean Paul

Berlin is rather a part of the world than a city.
Jean Paul

What could have possessed people to found a city in the middle of all this sand?
Stendhal

Berlin is the newest city I have come across. Even Chicago would appear old and gray in comparison.
Mark Twain

Berlin ist eine Stadt, verdammt dazu, ewig zu werden, niemals zu sein.
Karl Scheffler

Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.
Karl Scheffler

Die Berliner sind unfreundlich und rücksichtslos, ruppig und rechthaberisch, Berlin ist abstoßend, laut, dreckig und grau, Baustellen und verstopfte Straßen, wo man geht und steht – aber mir tun alle Menschen leid, die nicht hier leben können!
Anneliese Bödecker

The Berliners are unfriendly and inconsiderate, gruff and self-opinionated, Berlin is repulsive, loud, dirty and grey, construction works and blocked streets where you stop and go. But I feel sorry for those people who can not live here!
Anneliese Bödecker

Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin.
Marlene Dietrich

I still keep a suitcase in Berlin.
Marlene Dietrich

Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!
Walter Ulbricht

Nobody intends to put up a wall!
Walter Ulbricht

Here in Berlin, one cannot help being aware that you are the hub around which turns the wheel of history. ... If ever there were a people who should be constantly sensitive to their destiny, the people of Berlin, East and West, should be they.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Paris is always Paris and Berlin is never Berlin!
Jack Lang

Berlin combines the culture of New York, the traffic system of Tokyo, the nature of Seattle, and the historical treasures of, well, Berlin.
Hiroshi Motomura

Berlin is a pulsing, exciting city with so many varied and distinctive neighborhoods, iconic history all around, great food at all levels and from every corner of the world ... an excellent place to set up camp and make a great record.
R.E.M.