Blue Danube

Blue Danube may refer to:

  • The Blue Danube, a waltz written and composed by Johann Strauss II
  • The Blue Danube (1928 film), a 1928 American silent film starring Leatrice Joy
  • The Blue Danube (film), 1932 British film
  • Blue Danube (nuclear weapon), the first British operational nuclear weapon
  • Blue Danube (band), Austrian band who represented their country in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest
  • Blue Danube Radio, an English-language radio station in Vienna
  • Blue Danube (china pattern), a 1950's reproduction of the Blue Onion Meissen china pattern

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or danube:

    “Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
    —Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)

    “The Danube to the Severn gave
    The darken’d heart that beat no more;
    They laid him by the pleasant shore,
    And in the hearing of the wave.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)