Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kimiko Glenn

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

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.

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.

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

Georg Baselitz

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

Uwe Boll

I do think Hostel will be a good movie.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Gottfried Leibniz

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.

Hjalmar Schacht

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time

Hjalmar Schacht

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

Ted Shackelford

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

Heidi Klum

I certainly like working in Germany.

The firmer Belgian and Italian producer sentiment surveys released yesterday support the view of a strong growth reading on the Germany IFO survey out today.

Joel Silver

It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

John le Carre

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Karl Kraus

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Otto Rehhagel

There are no right or wrong, or fair results. There's just the final score.

Oswald Spengler

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

Otto von Bismarck

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

Paul Crouch

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

Louis Pasteur

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

I mean a German person would never do it like that, it would be very serious, you know, systematic, but a Spanish person it takes another kind of way.

There's the old German saying, 'Wash my fur, but don't get me wet,' ... Well, guess what: When you wash somebody down, he gets wet.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.

Pierre Laval

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

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.