German Quotes

“the only true saviours are german”

— Anonymous

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

— Frans Timmermans

When one is polite in German, one lies.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm ashamed to be German.

— Helmut Jahn

[I'm] more German than Irish.

— Bill Burr

Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

— Pat Buchanan

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

— Joan Rivers

Charity sees the need, not the cause

— German Proverb

I speak a bit of German and I am getting better every day.

— Thorgan Hazard

“Kita tidak bisa menyamaratakan kesedihan orang lain dengan kesedihan kita.”

— Lea Agustina Citra

For us women, to be German meant, and still means, always to be strong.

— Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

“Wie bald 'nicht jetz' 'nie' wird. How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.”

— Douglas Kennedy

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

— Ruth Westheimer

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

— Martin Heidegger

With German teams, they always sit together - there are no phones on the table.

— Xherdan Shaqiri

How can German music not be represented by an article?

— Wassily Kandinsky

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

— Gerard Debreu

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in…

— John Irving

All German women are beautiful. It's not for nothing that we talk of the German "Fräuleinwunder." You don't get this word in…

— Heidi Klum

Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that.

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Morgan

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a…

— Charles Duhigg

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a…

— Gyles Brandreth

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

— Rachel Martin

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do…

— Peter Hermann

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

— Lidia Bastianich

It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an…

— Martin Amis

What I really value in Angela Merkel is that she has never tried to tap the brakes on my élan, my enthusiasm.…

— Emmanuel Macron

“Weißt du, was das Geheimnis ist?", raunte der Zwerg an SEINER Seite. "Es ist die Kraft positiver Gedanken. Du musst einfach an…

— Bernhard Hennen

There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked…

— Barack Obama

“But then Oma tells me of bread, of the six hundred kinds made throughout her homeland, white and gray and black in…

— Christa Parrish

Angela Merkel embodies Germany's 20th century fate. It is not up to me to pass judgment on her place in history, but…

— Emmanuel Macron

I spoke with Gerhard Schröder about a lot of things, including foreign policy. Schröder knows how important European policy is to me…

— Martin Schulz

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…

— Mark Twain

“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching…

— Tupac Shakur

We are with Angela Merkel both people who proceed methodically, we love details. At summits, we two are among the few heads…

— Emmanuel Macron

“For Sayonara , literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh