German Quotes

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' Hari Kondabolu
You College White Heritage Say Give Well Equation Welsh Math Cultural Friends German Irish American Just Native Native American Ask Your Applications Fourth Third
All German women are beautiful. Heidi Klum
Beautiful Women Women Are German
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate. Heinrich Boll
Correspondence Would Marvel He Over Most Well Knows Passages German Just Anyone Sensitivity Interesting Certain Even Appreciate
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little. Heinrich Boll
Me Language See Understand Least Sounds Hear German Very Than Unfortunately Which Little Much Swedish Stranger
I'm ashamed to be German. Helmut Jahn
German Ashamed
In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud. Helmut Kohl
History Proud German Reasons Many
The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years. Helmut Schmidt
Me Living Kitchens Well Knows Been Years German Quite Public Rooms
The letter K was the first one in the alphabet which had not, with more or less justification, been used to designate other vitamins, and it also happened to be the first letter in the word 'koagulation' according to the Scandinavian and German spelling. Henrik Dam
Word First Other Spelling Scandinavian Vitamins Be The First More More Or Less Had Alphabet Also First One Been According German Happened Which Justification Used Less Letter Designate
My mother tongue is German. Herta Muller
Mother Mother Tongue German Tongue
Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom - introduced by Prince Albert - of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Ingrid Seward
Christmas Family Morning Indeed Introduced Rather Retain Opening Prince Still German Than Custom Eve Albert Royal Royal Family Presents Christmas Eve
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. Jack Steinberger
Christmas Find Charities Bound New Were German Offered American York Refugee New York Children Washington Homes Jewish
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. James F. Byrnes
Hope Peace Mistake People Will Nation Sit Other Back Hoping Threat Never Over Force Make Because Governments German German People Dominion American Any Again Acquire American People Uses Believing
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West. James F. Byrnes
Struggle Peace People World Power Partner Become Military World Peace East Between West German German People Germany Interest Should Pawn
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. James F. Byrnes
Generation Our Our Generation Neighbors Devastated German Lands Militarism Twice
The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them. James F. Byrnes
Work Hard Work People Progress Possibility Over Industrial However Were Years Denied Lot German German People Improving Them Hard Growth
The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit. James F. Byrnes
Failure Control Out Carrying Economic Allied Council Take Steps Economy Obstructed Enable However Been German Agreement Function Unit Necessary
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. James F. Byrnes
Impossible Minimum Economy Reach Industrial Powers Make Occupying Were Exist Conditions German Germany Essential Which Production Agreed Now Peacetime Levels
We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film. James Stockdale
People Tough Say East Kind Some Guys Generalize Known Were German Did Them Much Film
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. Jamie Cullum
Mother Father Ancestry German Scottish English Near Nowhere Jewish
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation. Jan Vogler
Home Translation Mark Mark Twain Complete Had Course Up German Grew Twain Hemingway
New York is the opposite of East Germany, the crown of individuality. That's why I can work well here and find out what I personally think of the pieces I'm learning. I can lay aside all the baggage of German education. In any case, whatever I do, I can't lose it altogether. Jan Vogler
Work Education Learning Lose Whatever Think East Out Find Case Lay Crown Individuality Baggage New Pieces Well Altogether Opposite German Germany York Any New York Personally Aside Why Here
German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it. Janeane Garofalo
Beautiful Woman People Beautiful Woman Harsh More Spoken Know Attractive She Accents Although Sounds German Maybe Romantic Hebrew Certain Speaking Speaks Who
When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German. Jean-Michel Jarre
Thought First Singing Band Were Heard German American
Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German. Jean-Michel Jarre
Respect Approach Machines Dream Almost Like Robotic Tangerine German Very Bands Apology Who
The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am! Jenny Mollen
Better Too Much Every Too Books Mine Bizarre Eclectic He Like Couple Make Sure Am German Very Than Author Just Want Then Much
It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know where my roots are, and I know that I've been born and raised in Germany. I see myself as a German, and I like to show that. Jerome Boateng
Myself Matter Skin See Born Colour Like Know Been German Germany Person Where Which Really Roots Should Show Raised
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