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Quotes About German

In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.
~ Marion Marechal-Le Pen
An Anglo-German clash was not preordained; but a German decision to launch a naval arms race was the one thing most likely to bring one about.
~ Gary D. Sheffield
It is specially characteristic of the German that the more servile he on the one hand is, the more uncontrolled is he on the other; restraint and want of restraint—originality, is the angel of darkness that buffets us.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All German women are beautiful.
~ Heidi Klum
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
~ Henry A. Wallace
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
~ Wilhelm Frick
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
Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.
~ Allan Gurganus
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.
~ Sigmar Gabriel
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
~ Mark Twain
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
~ Elliott Carter
The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag
~ David Letterman
Melchior Lotther, originally from Leipzig, who printed Luther's Bible in both Low and High German on three printing presses working simultaneously. It was the first good translation of a Bible into spoken language.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Boil 15 large potatoes in jackets. When done peel and rice them, letting them cool about 5 minutes, then add 2 eggs, 1½ cups of flour, 1 teaspoon salt and roll into balls and roll balls in flour. Have a pot of boiling water on the fire, place the dumplings in the water that has been salted and boil for 10 minutes, remove and serve. Hasenpfeffer and Kartoffel Klösze are generally served together but either can be served separate or with other food.
~ Mark Kurlansky
Yet others hummed snatches of German music: one émigré wrote that the melodies of Schubert or Beethoven seemed to reconstitute his dead father.
~ Anthony Heilbut
Perhaps the German leadership's greatest mistake in the Ardennes offensive was to have misjudged the soldiers of an army they had affected to despise.
~ Antony Beevor
There can be little doubt that the commitment and then grinding down of German forces in the Ardennes, especially the panzer divisions, had mortally weakened the Wehrmacht's capacity to defend the eastern front. But
~ Antony Beevor
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~ Antony Beevor
His policy of aggression was stated clearly on the very first page. Yet even though every German couple had to purchase a copy on marriage, few seem to have taken his bellicose predictions seriously.
~ Antony Beevor
I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: "'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Rache, is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle