Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this Remembrance Day.

The... allegations are wrong in all their details. The (Federal Intelligence Service) BND, and with it the German government, were unaware of such a plan until now.

Yevgeny Primakov

The American representatives on these inspection operations should not be ousted, but probably they should recruit more international personnel -- from France, Germany and even Russian experts,

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Menachem Begin

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

Paul Mooney

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Peter Morgan

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Roland Emmerich

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

We can only point out that not only is Germany sad, but there are signs of solidarity from the whole world,

George Rockwell

I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of the old country. All my German relatives lived in New York City, and we used to visit frequently.

Mother Teresa

We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

E. B. White

He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany and France).

Matthew Stewart

I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.

Alan Sugar

I find it strange that Gisela Gschaider a 1974 immigrant from Germany is on the brexit panel telling us British what we should do .

Wha the deil hae we got for a king, / But a wee, wee German lairdie!

Peter Bichsel

Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.

We are going to have to win over Germany and Italy, that's where we focus.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Klaus Schulze

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

David Whyte

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

Mike Nichols

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Adolf Hitler

Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.

Boris Becker

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

W. G. Sebald

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Tracy Morgan

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.