German Quotes

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Charles V

Women, God, Men

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Great, War

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
Marlene Dietrich

Heart, Country, America

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Ann Coulter

War, Leaders, Top

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor Adorno

Someone, Lie, Cannot

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
Bette Midler

Night, Married, Dress

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
Emo Philips

Two, Actually, Return

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
Jerry Saltz

Perfect, Artist

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Billy Wilder

Brilliant, Beethoven, Austrian

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
Pope Benedict XVI

Good, Looking, Shepherd

All German women are beautiful.
Heidi Klum

Women, Beautiful

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
Heidi Klum

Love, Good, Cook

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Speak, Accent, Germans

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
Karl Lagerfeld

Mind, Exist, Germany

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
William Jennings Bryan

Government, Free, Word

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

History, Character, Nation

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Others, Speak, While

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Karl Lagerfeld

Teacher, School, Before

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
Ben Stein

Peace, Eyes, Short

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck

Fear, Hearts, Appeal

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
Lawrence Welk

Played, Spanish, Looked

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann

Miserable, Level, Broke

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.
Martin Heidegger

Future, Alone, Single

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann

Life, History, Long

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp

Training, Started, Painting

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.
Diane Kruger

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
Joni Mitchell

Music, Night, Down

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
John le Carre

Education, Literature, Responsive

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.
Emeril Lagasse

Education, Experience, Job

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.
Anthony Kiedis

Hate, Country, Used

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