German Quotes · Page 5

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Jurgen Klopp is Shankly reincarnated in a German body, because he gets the people.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

“German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion – entirely appropriate.”

— John Fowles

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

— Emilie Autumn

German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.

— Helmut Kohl

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

— Martina Hingis

German football is very different to football in South America.

— Jupp Heynckes

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Good movies are my weakness. I have seen several international movies ranging from English to Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.

— Roop Durgapal

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

— Jacob Grimm

'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,'…

— Michael Haneke

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always…

— W. G. Sebald

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

— Daniel Farke

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

— Jamie Cullum

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

— Jadon Sancho

Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.

— W. G. Sebald

“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

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been…

— Tim Howard

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did…

— Edward Grey

I have extremely friendly feelings for German chancellor. I think Angela Merkel is very courageous, and that is one reason I have…

— Emmanuel Macron

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has…

— Dan Feuerriegel

For Martin Schulz, the chancellor candidate for the center-left Social Democrats, friendly wishes don't go far enough. He would like to see…

— Wolfgang Schauble

I hate watching myself speak German, it's painful!

— Jesse Marsch

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

— Diane Kruger

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

— W. G. Sebald

It's important for me that the best German players also play for Germany.

— Hansi Flick

I am happy to be a German. I'm proud, or I wouldn't be here in the team.

— Jerome Boateng

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

— Alfred Rosenberg

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

You need a lot of words to say anything in German.

— Harry Enfield

“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

— Anonymous

At the German FA, they don't like criticism.

— Mats Hummels

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

— Israel Horovitz

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

— Roy Hodgson

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

— Rhea Perlman

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

— Albert Speer