78 Germans Quotes for You to Enjoy

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. Gary Lineker

Game Sports Win Simple Men Minutes Chase Football Ball Always End Germans Twenty-Two

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Noam Chomsky

Respect Evil Crushed Young Teenager Types Our Some Propaganda Hysteria Mere Like Self-Image Vermin Were Blond Germans Ants Just After Japanese Appalled Utterly Early Imaginary Treated

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. Anne Frank

War Good Trouble First Few Jews Good Times Between Arrival Were Germans Times May After Which Far Then Capitulation Started

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! John Belushi

Nothing Hell Over Until Germans Decide Harbor Bombed Pearl Pearl Harbor

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms. Julius Caesar

Made Men Few Corn Other Incredible Panic Frame Our Valour Troops Remarks Supplies Days Arms Halt Were Provision Germans Mighty Skill Who Near Uttered

During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened. Angela Merkel

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them. Gerald Scarfe

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. Karl Kraus

Trouble Fire Shells Germans Quotations Them Kant

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us. Philip Gibbs

Love War You Hate Sorry France Shall Glad Put Do You Know Know Because Germans Die Ask Us Who Why

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. Steven Spielberg

Me Remember Mother Young Stage Every Jews Symphony Hers Broke Telling About Finger Fingers Pianist Permitted Came Friend Up Very Germans Germany Hands Grew Stories Breaking Who Her Played

I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates. Ali Krieger

Love Death Me Training Better Language Made Teammates Appreciative Way Better Player Had Like Learn Learned Course Felt Were Quick Germans Offense Trying American Just Being Which Mean Them Being Mean Really Help Actually Player Treated

In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia. Alistair Horne

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States. Andrei Codrescu

Freedom Mother Made Jews Sold States He Part Head Bought Instead Between Also Deal Israel Came Were West Germans Germany Bundle Currency Going Romania Ethnic Hard United United States

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that. Angela Merkel

Responsibility Lasting Other Sympathy Other Countries Tremendous About Countries Got Era Caused Germans Did Sensitive Special Aware Damage Alert

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. Angela Merkel

Change Say Unable Nonsense Germans

The Germans must be together. Angelique Kerber

Together Must Germans

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity. Anthony Lewis

Democracy Trials Humanity Before Nuremberg Back Tribunal Open Had Leaders Long-Term Court Effect Germans International Profound Bringing

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre. Antony Beevor

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. Bayard Taylor

Family Important Tribes Division Most Also Branches Germans Greeks Human The Most Important Romans Form Which Race Human Family

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer. Clint Smith

Me Game World Unlucky Win Old Victory Focus Other Astonishing Run Athletic Only Push Over Years Historic Mexico Cup Germans Effort Against Soccer Aside Interests Team Even Each World Cup Resilient Portugal Thirteen

We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest. Daniel Bruhl

Good Car Good Qualities Constructing Know Qualities Lot Germans Should Funniest

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