The 2013 Games of the Small States of Europe will be held in Luxembourg. The slogan as well as the logo of the games will be „Are you ready for the games?“. The opening ceremony will be held at the Stade Josy Barthel, the closing ceremony at the Neumünster Abbey.
Famous quotes containing the words games, small, states and/or europe:
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“I do not want to be covetous, but I think I speak the minds of many a wife and mother when I say I would willingly work as hard as possible all day and all night, if I might be sure of a small profit, but have worked hard for twenty-five years and have never known what it was to receive a financial compensation and to have what was really my own.”
—Emma Watrous, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)
“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)
“New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)