Quotes of German - somelinesforyou

“ If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic. ”

- Edward Albee

“ There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ And the line up for the final of the Women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman. ”

- David Coleman

“ Wha' the deil hae we got for a king, but a wee, wee German lairdie! ”

- Allan Cunningham

“ German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to… a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. ”

- Hermann Goering

“ A lot of real Chicago lives in the neighborhood taverns. It is the mixed German and Irish and Polish gift to the city, a bit of the old country grafted into a strong new plant in the new. ”

- Bill Granger

“ From the German verb tinzelle-literally, to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one's money before word of mouth hits. ”

- Charlie Haas

“ Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today. ”

- James C. Humes

“ I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting? ”

- Thomas Kretschmann

“ I really liked German food. And it's very clean… It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well… the garbage. ”

- Dominic Monaghan

“ One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war. ”

- Robert D. MacDonald

“ When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war. ”

- Maxwell D. Taylor

“ I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Without music, life would be a mistake. The German imagines even God singing songs. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell properly. ”

- Volker Ruhe

“ I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. ”

- Bette Midler

“ I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. ”

- Charles V

“ Life is too short to learn German. ”

- R. Porson

“ There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ My mother was born in Lima, Peru, and my father is American of primarily German and English descent. And as I understand it, Bratt is of English origin. People often ask me if it's a stage name. In fact, it is not. ”

- Benjamin Bratt

“ The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life not only decently, but dignifiedly. ”

- George Borrow

“ A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag. ”

- David Letterman

“ Winston Churchill pointed out another attribute of good rhetoric: it is sincere. You must yourself really be against the Germans buzz-bombing London before you can persuade the English people it is a rotten notion. ”

- Kerry Thornley

“ My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ”

- Conrad Veidt

“ During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. ”

- Stephen Ambrose

“ I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin. ”

- Uffe Ellemann Jensen
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