German Quotes · Page 9

I do not have the right to vote in Germany. From a Polish perspective, I say: it would be good if Ms.…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then…

— Mohammed Morsi

“Besides, if you lump them all together because they're German, how does that makes you any different from the way they lump…

— Jodi Picoult

“Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for ‘pleasure derived…

— John Dolan

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

— Eric Metaxas

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian…

— Cote de Pablo

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

— Mark Twain

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

“Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although…

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-…

— Mark Twain

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the…

— Antony Beevor

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a…

— Stephen Daldry

This is something that Alternative for Germany, which is the party that's coming up from behind and is expected to actually beat…

— Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is…

— Lidia Bastianich

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a critical test in her political career. Merkel has been under increasing pressure over the European migrant…

— Rachel Martin

I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

— Kyle MacLachlan

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to…

— Victoria de los Angeles

“You and the Germans, you have your super- soldiers, your secret weapons... but we Russians, we have nothing but our winter.”

— Vasily Karpov

Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point,…

— Bill Kaulitz

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

— George Bernard Shaw

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

“Just as the violation of Angela Merkel’s rights is a massive scandal and the violation of 80 million Germans is a nonstory.”

— Anonymous

With every wish to take Europe forward with a German-French nucleus, the proposals must always fit with German interests.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European…

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

— Mario Monti

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

— Martin Compston

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

— Donald Tusk

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

— Adolf Hitler

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

— Dirk Nowitzki

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a…

— Daniel Breaker

My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

— Jan Vogler

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

— Adolf Hitler

“Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.”

— Philip Kerr

I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up…

— Peter Hermann

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

— Kimiko Glenn

The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and…

— Joe Trippi

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

— Michael Haneke

Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.

— Luke Harding