Germans Quotes
218 Germans quotes by 177 unique authors
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We're all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let's stop thinking that there's only…
— Francois Hollande
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It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.
— Lee Iacocca
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With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in…
— Jay Inslee
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
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It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and…
— Diane Kruger
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
— Gary Lineker
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It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
— Angela Merkel
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I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
— Mario Monti
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in…
— Viggo Mortensen
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that…
— Steven Spielberg
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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not…
— Gertrude Stein
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The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on…
— Bill Toomey
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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no…
— Pete Townshend
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
— Walter Ulbricht
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Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work…
— Henry A. Wallace
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After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better…
— Frans de Waal
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If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.
— Stephen Colbert
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What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans…
— Joseph Heller
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The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
— Mark Twain
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The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was not a washroom. They were not sent there…
— Markus Zusak
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They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those…
— Markus Zusak
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I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of…
— Rick Steves
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