German Quotes · Page 9

I have two dogs, a springer spaniel and a German shepherd. One of them's name is Nolan Arenado.

— Buster Posey

Playing in the German Bundesliga gave me the platform to excel in my football career.

— Jay-Jay Okocha

“Like the small flame of a match to a cigarette, Rudolf’s fury lit the crumpled edge of his German soul.”

— Geraldine Birch

I hope that Angela Merkel can become the chancellor of the rebuilding of Europe, in close cooperation with the role that I…

— Emmanuel Macron

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

— Juan Manuel Fangio

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

— Navid Negahban

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir

Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.

— Vladimir Putin

It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know where my roots are, and I know that…

— Jerome Boateng

Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I…

— Willie Geist

The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no…

— Jairam Ramesh

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and…

— Monica Raymund

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to…

— Eleanor Catton

Angela Merkel did the right thing. Her decision and the extraordinary willingness of the German people to take in refugees conveyed an…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order…

— Barack Obama

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which…

— Hans Frank

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans…

— Hasso Plattner

The small teams are playing well. That's visible, and it has had an impact on German football.

— Bastian Schweinsteiger

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

— Werner Herzog

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

— Willie Rushton

I always say a couple of words to the German players in the changing room and they're always laughing at me!

— Emile Smith Rowe

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.

— Toni Kroos

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh…

— David Sedaris

“I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without…

— Bram Stoker

“This is the best day of my life…I will go down in history as the greatest German ever.”

— Volker Ullrich

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that…

— Marisol Nichols

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

— George Soros

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

— Michael Haneke

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was…

— Courtney Gains

Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.

— Marine Le Pen

“This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.”

— Mark Twain

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

— Suzanne Fields

I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.

— Til Schweiger

Pep Guardiola had some great clashes with Klopp in German football. They know each other well.

— Roberto Firmino

“Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has…

— Maurice Druon

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had…

— Dixie Dean

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

— John le Carre

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