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The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade. — George S. Patton

When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special. — Tulsi Tanti

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. — Mark Twain

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

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. — Martin Freeman

German lieder is creepy music. That's why I specialize in it. — Carson McCullers

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. — Menachem Begin

How much beer is in German intelligence? — Friedrich Nietzsche

That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat. — J.D. Salinger

There is no doubt that the adsence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German army. — Joseph Stalin

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

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance. — Michael Haneke

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. — Patrick White

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. — Siegfried Sassoon

The mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence. — Louisa May Alcott

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

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive - but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe. — Ken Follett

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union. — Angela Merkel

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S. — Courtney Gains

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

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. — Sophie Scholl

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno. — Adolf Hitler

desperately needed to practice her German, because she couldn't sing Schubert's songs in English for — Sarah Lark

German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America — Justin Bieber

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

They were very scary times [1982], Midge Ure dancing with tears in his eyes. That German girl with the hairy arm pits singing about 99 red balloons. — Kate Harrison

It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle. — Claudia Schiffer

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more. — Karl Lagerfeld

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. — Emo Philips

A dream ... I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit. — Mark Twain

Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war. — Adam Makos

In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned. — Adolf Hitler

G.W.F. Hegel. "He's perfect," Weishaupt wrote ... "Unlike Kant, who makes sense only in German, this man doesn't make sense in any language. — Robert Anton Wilson

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there. — Stefan Heym

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

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

they agreed to cede a third of European Russia to German control in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918. — Henry Kissinger

On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music — Kurt Tucholsky

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway. — Alex Bosworth

Altogether one quarter of German territory was lost in 1945, territory which had for many centuries belonged to Germany. — Neil MacGregor

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. — Wanda Jackson

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France. — Lisa Papademetriou

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe. — Angela Merkel

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German. — W.G. Sebald

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany. — Juan Manuel Fangio

The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists. — Peter Landesman

He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells. — Anthony Doerr

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria. — Karl Donitz

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language. — Mark Twain

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. — Gustav Heinemann

I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there. — Peter Hermann

When one is polite in German, one lies. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth. — Albert Camus

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. — Otto Von Bismarck

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. — James F. Byrnes

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder — Helene Munson

The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led. — Adolf Hitler

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions. — Tim Heidecker

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars ... — Sylvia Plath

Colluded with German communists to build a secret radio and send messages to the Allies. In addition to his endless work week, Werner also had — Edith Hahn Beer

Such names as German Mastiff, German Boarhound, English Dogge, Ulmer Dogge and Deutsche Dogge were common in countries around the world. — S. William Haas

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? — Thomas Kretschmann

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths. — Louise Rennison

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German. — Martina Hingis

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has — Mark Twain

Every German child learns to speak English in school. — Cornelia Funke

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

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

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

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

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