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She is the clock-guardian. I was thinking about getting a German Shepherd, but they don't blow fire. — Jonathan Dunne

I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith. — Rex Smith

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans. — Hasso Plattner

In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband! — William L. Shirer

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. — Elie Wiesel

We were looking for a 'good shepherd', and instead we got a German shepherd. — Pope Benedict XVI

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. — Tory Burch

Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. — Alain Prost

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. — Anne Frank

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City. — Lev Yashin

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren

German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you. — G.K. Chesterton

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. — Jose Bergamin

You have to move on. Enjoy your life. — Lea Agustina Citra

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. — Clifton Fadiman

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld

The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen. — Niall Ferguson

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium. — Simon Schama

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. — Gerard Debreu

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

All German women are beautiful. — Heidi Klum

What!You know German? — Jules Verne

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. — Gore Vidal

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth. — Adolf Hitler

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does. — P. J. O'Rourke

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. — Paul Celan

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002. — Bill Vaughan

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews. — Rhea Perlman

Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. — Ruben Blades

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. — Gore Vidal

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. — Jacob Grimm

POP FACT Like the Passat and the Scirocco, the Golf was another '70s VW named after a wind. In this case, Golfstrom, which is German for Gulf Stream. — Giles Chapman

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. — Stephen Kinzer

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me. — Michael Robotham

A German joke is no laughing matter. — Mark Twain

I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused. — Albert Camus

Girl: Doctor, doctor! A German shepherd bit my finger. Doctor: Which one? Girl: The one owned by Mr. James next door! — Various

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends ... It wasn't worth it. — Harry Patch

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it. — Robert Ley

Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom. — Upton Sinclair

Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis. — Erin Gruwell

thoughts about them living alone in German-occupied Shedlitz — Amira Keidar

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. — Bayard Taylor

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares ... or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination. — Tony Benn

Never trust a German to get a sauce right. Their solution to everything is just add more butter. — Kate Quinn

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. — Mark Twain

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger. — Mark Twain

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity. — Erich Ludendorff

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. — Michael Scott

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. — Douglas Hurd

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman. — Peter Morgan

Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom stirs). Since 1906, that obscure German phrase has encircled the Stanford Tree in the school emblem. — Greg Steinmetz

I don't want anyone to follow me on Twitter if they're looking for anything interesting or mature. — Lauren German

German nudists are the only successful rebels against Nazi control," he wrote. — Andrew Nagorski

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity. — Helmut Kohl

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. — Wilhelm II

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian. — Evan Osnos

Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness. — Desmond Seward

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality. — Leonard Mlodinow

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! — Konstantin Rokossovsky

How can German music not be represented by an article? — Wassily Kandinsky

German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans. — Anonymous

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings — Barbara W. Tuchman

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial. — Claudia Schiffer

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain, — Kristin Hannah

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think? — Chris Rock

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode. — Volker Bertelmann

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. — Kaniehtiio Horn

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people. — Karl Marx

No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug expression. — Claire Dederer

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits. — Martin Compston

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there. — Ted Shackelford

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! — Lewis Carroll

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say. — Richard Wagner

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German. — Georg Baselitz

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose. — Hans Zimmer

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'. — Gary Wright

Never were we freer than under the German Occupation. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.) — Madeleine L'Engle

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. — Peter Ustinov

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. — Billy Wilder

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. — Mark Twain

A German vegetarian might well prefer to marry a French vegetarian than a German carnivore. — Yuval Noah Harari

all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised. — Timothy Snyder

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true. — Daniel Breaker

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay — Goronwy Rees

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read. — Edgar Allan Poe

The Japanese are easily influenced,
Italian's are infectious,
And German's are German's wherever they go. — Hidekaz Himaruya

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. — George S. Patton