German Quotes

652 German quotes by 461 unique authors

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music. — Keith Emerson
I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which… — Hermann Goring
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German… — Walter Ulbricht
I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German. — Martina Navratilova
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or… — George Henry Lewes
The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed:… — Raul Hilberg
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation… — David Irving
Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was… — Unknown Author
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Unknown Author
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in… — George Bernard Shaw
Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All… — Phyllis Diller
Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot… — Anthony Anderson
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of… — Robert Harris
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an… — Neville Chamberlain
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -… — Steven Strogatz
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary — Dave Kellett
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language — John Irving
In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has — Mark Twain
I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, 'Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much… — Robin Williams
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some… — Wendell Willkie
An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem… — Unknown Author
My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it,… — Etgar Keret
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York,… — Jack Steinberger
As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the… — Unknown Author
I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become… — Bernhard Schlink

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