German Quotes
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With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.
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A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
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I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.
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German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.
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I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories.
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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
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Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we (the German people) ever thank you?
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I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.
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Nobody would know I was a German - ain't it?
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I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I've never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
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Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
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The German Luftwaffe always fought without any reserves. This is also the reason why we have pilots with extremely high numbers of victories.
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Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
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Now we will throw these mediocre kitsch-mongers into slavery, and teach them to venerate the German spirit and to worship the German God.
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My wife is German, so I know something about German energy policy.
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I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether to start Greek and drop German, but my mum made a fuss, and I took Latin, Greek, French, and German at O-level, which meant I didn't do much science.
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Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
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German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.
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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.
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The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
