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Quotes About German

Believe me, I have looked this up, and the roots of fate and faith are not the same. Nonetheless, I picked up my wicker suitcase to follow Herman the German into the Old Faithful Inn.
~ Ivan Doig
It's a little luck and a little how you are able to go physically and mentally for all 90 minutes. They say that is typical German soccer. Maybe now it is typically Dutch.
~ Frank de Boer
German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being ugly and guttural. In fact, it's one of the most melodic, lyrical languages around. And German literature is amazing. It's just a treasury for me.
~ Susie Dent
I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
~ Tim Heidecker
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.
~ Erich Fromm
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
It's difficult to beat German teams. They don't play as attractively as, for example, you have it in the English league or in the Spanish league. But to break a German team is not very easy.
~ Louis van Gaal
I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.
~ Louis van Gaal
The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.
~ Karl Donitz
It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?
~ Henning von Tresckow
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.
~ Neal Stephenson
But I do know that the Germans know that we are here," Shaftoe said, "you just told me." "No, no no no no," Benjamin said, "wait until you would know that the Germans knew even if you didn't know from being told by Colonel Chattan over the radio." "Are you fucking with me?" "Orders," Benjamin said, and handed Shaftoe the deciphered message as proof.
~ Neal Stephenson
He gazes up at the ceiling of the chapel through half-closed eyes and thanks God for having sent him what is obviously a German spy and an angel of mercy rolled into one adorable package.
~ Neal Stephenson
The German physicist Max Planck, after whom these unimaginably small quantities are named, introduced the idea of quantized energy in 1900 and is generally credited as the father of quantum mechanics.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
German physicist Heinrich Hertz had shown that the only real difference among the various kinds of light is the frequency of the waves in each band.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Had the Illuminati remained faithful to Weishaupt's original blueprint, they would long ago have been forgotten, if they had ever been heard of at all. The key to their growth and later notoriety was their infiltration of German Masonic lodges
~ Niall Ferguson
La retórica europea de los nazis halló especial resonancia en todos aquellos conservadores para quienes el dominio alemán parecía un mal menor frente al comunismo soviético.
~ Niall Ferguson
I was hesitant about doing too big a role in an American movie because it meant losing my German accent.
~ Franka Potente
I believe my soul isn't entirely German because my home is so disorderly.
~ Ruth Westheimer
I am very proud to be the captain of the German national team.
~ Manuel Neuer
Ozil is a great player. He's the brain of the German national team.
~ Zico
I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.
~ Louise Erdrich
Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed
~ Christopher Hitchens