German Quotes

Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

Daniel Bruhl
- Up
- Home
- Mother
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

George Bernard Shaw

In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team.

Jacob Weisberg
- Team
- Ballet
- Gymnastics
I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

Bernhard Langer
- Different
- German
From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

Philip Gibbs
- Fire
- Rose
- German
When I was younger, my mother wanted me to look like Claudia Schiffer. I was like, 'We're not even German, but all right.'

Keala Settle
- Mother
- German
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

Arthur Rubinstein
- Great
- Color
- Wine
Luther could not be ignorant of this mediaeval version. He made judicious use of it, as he did also of old German and Latin hymns. Without such aid he could hardly have finished his New Testament in the short space of three months.

Philip Schaff
- Space
- German
- Latin