Quotes About German

Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.

The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

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.

De lo que se trata aquí es de la vacunación sistemática de todo un pueblo –el alemán– con un bacilo cuyo efecto consiste en que todos los portadores actúan contra el prójimo con ferocidad, o dicho de otro modo: se trata de liberar y cultivar aquellos instintos sádicos cuya represión y destrucción ha sido obra de un proceso civilizador de muchos miles de años de duración.

Los nazis han atragantado a los alemanes con el acohol de la camaradería, cosa que ellos en parte deseaban, hasta el delirium tremens. Han convertido a todos los alemanes en camaradas y los han aficionado a esa droga desde la edad más temprana: en las Juventudes Hitlerianas, las SA, el ejército del Reich, en miles de campamentos y federaciones, extirpándoles algo irreemplazable, algo que no puede ser compensado con la felicidad propia de la camaradería.

Claro que tuvo que ocurrir algo más para que este mecanismo fuese perfecto: la traición cobarde de los dirigentes de todos los partidos y organizaciones en quienes confió el cincuenta y seis por ciento de los alemanes que votó en contra de los nazis el 5 de marzo de 1933.

Finally, in his thick German accent, Max politely explained that all musical phrases must consist of an even number of bars.

They always ate and made tea on the alcohol lamp before going to bed. This was quite in the German tradition, Tilda said. Germans in their homes ate six meals a day: breakfast, second breakfast, dinner, afternoon coffee, supper and in the evening tea or beer with sandwiches and kuchen. Betsy, in the cherry-red bathrobe, and Tilda in a blue one, feasted merrily.

Somewhere, there is a German scientist working with a vampire. And you need a vampire to help you destroy the threat of what that scientist will unleash on the world.

Since this other source was mainly made up of sayings, these (German) scholars called it the Sayings Source. The word for source in German is Quelle, and so scholars today speak about "Q"—the lost source that provided Matthew and Luke with much of their sayings material.

Matthew and Luke had another source available to them that provided them with these non-Markan passages. Since this other source was mainly made up of sayings, these (German) scholars called it the Sayings Source. The word for source in German is Quelle, and so scholars today speak about "Q"—the lost source that provided Matthew and Luke with much of their sayings material.

Lenin's big gambles—accepting imperial German aid to return to Russia; the coup in Petrograd; the capitulatory separate peace with Germany—had paid off.

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

it was Buddhism that inspired the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, and, through him, attracted Richard Wagner. This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics, in the words of Léon Poliakov, to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters.

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

was an acclaimed novelist and translator of German authors. Along with his original novels, including Medner Hill Farm and The Leaden Cupid, Creighton made many classics of German

I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt.

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

Himmler and these men are all members of a Nazi paramilitary organization known in German as the Schutzstaffel.