Germans Quote by Stephen E. Ambrose Download Open image ““If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!”” — Stephen E. Ambrose ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Germans Germans Make Hero Hero Germans Quick Dead Want Hero
“You're a stone cold killer, Frank. You kill people for a living. And so does this German guy. You aren't heroes. You're what most… — Jon F. Merz Copy Share Image
“Marvelous, isn’t it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they’re fucking dead.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Precautionary measure. With those words any deaths could be justified. Better to destroy your own people than there be a chance a German soldier… — Tom Rob Smith Copy Share Image
“If you're a soldier-- even if you're French-- you're supposed to try very hard to escape captivity!" -Germany” — Hidekaz Himaruya Copy Share Image
“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.” — Nancy Wake Copy Share Image
“I came here thinking I was going to win this war and come on home in no time at all. Now I think I'll… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us… We are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“That is something we must never forget; although others may show heroism in the war or against the Germans, our helpers display heroism in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Being dead is a pretty good alibi for anyone who’s in trouble with the law, but in Nazi Germany it was an existential hazard.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall,” the paratroopers liked to say. “He forgot to put a roof on… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse’s religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types,” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“These are some of the qualities that make for a good company commander. Lewis had them in abundance, plus some special touches that made… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply,… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I instinctively dislike ever to uphold the conservative as opposed to the bold” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction, careful as a father of… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Jefferson could write, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“May works be the test of patriotism as they ought, of right, to be of religion.” — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“So it had always been and apparently would be. The terms “peace” and “war” as understood by the Americans had no meaning to the… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans. — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our… — Manfred Rommel Copy Share Image
“[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image