Quotes About German

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

By the end of the war, virtually all of America's most important German trading partners from the 1920s and 1930s were to have blood under their fingernails.

Later came the compulsory Aryanizations, which began in November 1938.4 The government seized Jewish property without compensation and sold the plunder to German companies or individuals.

The Midlanders—a great many of them German speaking—carried their pluralistic culture into the Heartland, a place long since identified with neighborliness, family-centered progress, practical politics, and a distrust of big government.

I am German forever, German 'nationalist'. The nazis are un-German.

Let me add, just in case, that experts on literary "schools" should wisely refrain this time from casually dragging in "the influence of German Impressionists": I do not know German and have never read the Impressionists—whoever they are.

That such a small force was entrusted with defending the critical Losheim Gap demonstrated the complacency with which American commanders viewed the possibility of a German offensive in the Ardennes.

He studied at the Bauhaus, you know." "So that makes him trustworthy? Because he's an architect?" "A modernist architect." "You've got an odd sense of trust, my love. He's still a German, and you can never trust a German. Always remember that." "Yes, my dear, I'll keep that in mind.

In referring to the Führer's military acumen, he referred to him as a "dilettante" and quipped that Germany's defeat on the eastern front was due to too many Russians and one German too many.

In old times the lady-bird was believed to live in the sun, and the German children still have a rhyme telling it to fly away up to heaven and bring back the sunshine; and they believe that if they were to kill one of these insects the sun would not shine the next day.

worker sprayed an olive German M poster with a retrofitted insecticide atomizer while his partner sponged at a stained spot gently with Orvus soap, a pure, fragrance-free surfactant used for livestock and posters.

The German team became more German than ever. They used in their performance the 'Mia San Mia' motto that the players wear on their shirts, which on the pitch manifests itself in a supreme belief, intensity and constant waves of attack.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

In the summer of 1913, Kafka bangs endlessly on about 'necessity,' that favorite concept of every German since Hegel who ever planned to do something morally dubious.

Guderian's troops reaching the Meuse was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, and was due to a masterpiece example of the German Bewegungskrieg.

Really, it was incredible that they had achieved any successes at all. As if to underline the disintegration of the entire German war strategy, on the night of 4/5 December temperatures along the Eastern Front plummeted to minus 35 degrees.

Montgomery intended to bludgeon his way through the German opposition. What he had learned in North Africa, in Sicily and in southern Italy was that the Germans always counter-attacked. It was almost Pavlovian.

I had survived the plagues of Africa, bullets and near death on the killing field. I'd survived the blade at my neck, only to lose my life to a virus inside a clean German clinic. I