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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
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
— 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
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
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
An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
— Sophie Scholl
desperately needed to practice her German, because she couldn't sing Schubert's songs in English for
— Sarah Lark
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
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
— Emo Philips
Of the twenty-eight thousand German fighter pilots to see combat in WWII, only twelve hundred survived the war.
— Adam Makos
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
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
This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
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
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'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
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
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
The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.
— Adolf Hitler
In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars ... — Sylvia Plath
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
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