East European

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or european:

“The beds i’ th’ East are soft.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)