Germany Quotes
636 Germany quotes by 465 unique authors
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The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and…
— Lea Salonga
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
— Daniel Bruhl
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I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea,…
— Chad Coleman
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Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That…
— Rick Atkinson
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Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution,…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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The pressure in Hollywood is bigger to look good than in Germany. In Germany, we are more forgiving. Having a personal coach in Germany is…
— Unknown Author
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Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust…
— Paul Theroux
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I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and…
— Pete Seeger
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My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.
— Lech Walesa
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Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs,…
— Michael Caine
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The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.
— Alan Greenspan
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It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide…
— Grover Norquist
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and…
— Bayard Taylor
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Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt had had a…
— George W. S. Trow
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I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never…
— Friedrich St. Florian
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican,…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication…
— Laurie Helgoe
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Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish…
— Noah Feldman
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Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the…
— Martin Jacques
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After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its…
— Martin Jacques
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