Baltic States Quotes

“At precisely the noon hour she stopped to eat an apple and a wedge of cheese, while the Lithuanians sat across the table from her and made a picnic of black bread and dumplings stuffed with some kind of minced meat that Mary wanted to take apart with her fork and examine.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Fever

“Basanavicius himself was intensely interested in Lithuanian history and folklore and published extensively in those fields, contributing to the romanticization of the Lithuanian past and hypothesizing that Lithuanians as a people were descendants of the Thraco-Phrygians who once had lived on the shores of the Black Sea.(page 238)”
― Andrejs Plakans, (A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge Concise Histories)) [By: Plakans, Andrejs] [Feb, 2011]