German Quotes

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

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

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

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

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.

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

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

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

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.