German Quote by Herta Muller Download Open image “My mother tongue is German.” — Herta Muller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare German Mother Mother tongue Parenting Tongue
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch. — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
“And I’m different without you. You’re the only one who thinks you’re never different.” — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“I wanted to work out a trade with things that aren’t alive but aren’t dead either. I wanted to make an emergency exchange, trading… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
My first book, 'Nadirs,' was very important for me. I'll leave its literary worth for others to judge. But its publication in Berlin in… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn outside to the empty yard of the afternoon. The wind tosses thin snow that crackles against my neck. With open hunger the… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“The reasaon I'm shy of objects is because I like them. I transfer the thoughts that are against me onto them. Then these thoughts… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“The gym instructor was the first to raise his hand. All the other hands flew up after his. While raising their hands, everybody looked… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi situaciju, a… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French. — Wang Leehom Copy Share Image
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“An English comedian once explained the popularity of umlauts among native English speakers as follows: "It's almost as if they had two eyes. You… — David Bergmann Copy Share Image
I played on a line with Theo Fleury and German Titov, and I was actually center on their line. — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league. — Louis van Gaal Copy Share Image
I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
There are not a lot of German players out there who are successful in a foreign country. — Per Mertesacker Copy Share Image
Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent. — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
