Germany Quotes · Page 8

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

— H. G. Wells

I am grateful to God for that because people can still identify me with something in Germany.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.

— Edwin Black

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.

— John Motson

Action alone doesn't work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

— Til Schweiger

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

— Adolf Hitler

If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.

— Gavin Newsom

“What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving…

— Tim Marshall

“In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago…

— Tucker Elliot

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which…

— Michael Caine

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored…

— Charles Lindbergh

“I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.”

— Edmund Ironside

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

— Anonymous

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years…

— Gene Weingarten

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the…

— Gustav Stresemann

We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more…

— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their…

— Simone Weil

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of…

— Noam Chomsky

I have been living in Germany for one year and my impression is that people here are on a quest for the…

— Liao Yiwu

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to…

— Winston Churchill

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India,…

— Amartya Sen

Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television.…

— Fatih Ak?n

“The historical record contradicts the assumption that the Nazis sentenced large numbers of people to death during World War II for telling…

— Rudolph Herzog

Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps.…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course…

— Vladimir Putin

“If Prague and the rest of Bohemia, with all their charming hospodas delightful architecture and pretty landscape should become too cosy for…

— Terje B. Englund

Europe has been at peace since 1945. But it is a restless peace thats shadowed by the threat of violence. Europe is…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're…

— Rashid Khalidi

In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.…

— Ian Kershaw

Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these…

— Naomi Wolf

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

— Boris Kodjoe

I used to say that I got to Germany as a boy but I left as a man.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

“Germany, Germany! I'm in North Africa right now and I can't tie my shoe laces!" -Italy”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

— Klaus Nomi

“The meeting began well, meaning it had the potential for being short.”

— Tucker Elliot

“I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.”

— François Mauriac

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

— Willy Brandt