German language Quote by Mark Twain

“Later, I started to understand just why these children ‘hated’ us other children. I understood that they did not, in fact, hate ‘us’, but…

— Alfred Nestor

“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words”

— Markus Zusak

“Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.”

— Philip Kerr

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

“If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Now all persons who have spent much of their time in Germany, and certainly all born Germans, have a great fear of the law.…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.”

— Ben Johnson

“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,”

— Paul Kalanithi

“Today most of us speak, think and dream in imperial languages that were forced upon our ancestors by the sword.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug…

— Claire Dederer

“Her beauty has captured me, imprisoned my capacity for language. All I can do is pay homage to the temple of her body.”

— Jasinda Wilder

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño