Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustav Heinemann

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Buzz Aldrin

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Pierre Laval

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

For the German left, it's an unbearable truth.

Georg Baselitz

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

Paul Celan

Death is a master from Germany.

Method Man

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.

Frank Lloyd

in 1943, many Germans went to the Wright household and held musicals.

Sibel Kekilli

I have to make sure I don't eat too much chocolate. You can't imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

Franz Beckenbauer

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Franz Grillparzer

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

He's the only person I know who read all 42 volumes of the works of Goethe in German and he read them all twice,

Germany Inc. can be chalked up to the past.

Sepp Blatter

German thoroughness will make sure that everything will work at the time of the kickoff. The Germans are not only competent, it's also simple to work with them.

Hans Berger

In Germany I am not so famous.

Jonathan Davies

I don't think Murdoch would be doing this if he wasn't talking to the other studio owners, and they all need to find a way of keeping the German market going. It's just too big a market.

Jean Paul

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Ted Shackelford

I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

Peter Drucker

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Mark Twain

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

Mark Twain

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Mark Twain

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Martin Heidegger

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

Klaus Fuchs

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

Klaus Fuchs

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Milton Friedman

Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

Milton Friedman

Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

That is wrong. Germany was not on the side of those waging war. We did not supply the Americans with any target data.

Matthew Stewart

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.