Quotes of: German-people Keyword

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring...

My War

...the place I was bound for on my latest pilgrimage was filled with living, first-hand memories of all the enchanted years that lie between two and eighteen. How enchanted those years are is made more and more clear to me the older I grow. There has...

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Ken Follett

What's it like?" "Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.

Rob Grant

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

Theodor Adorno

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

Donald Tusk

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

Thomas Mann

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

Thomas Kretschmann

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

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

Pope Benedict XVI

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

Charles V

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.

Emperor Charles V

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Fritz Todt

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

John Badham

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

Dirk Nowitzki

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

Hans Frank

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

John C. Hawkes

Dr. King Schultz: [toasting their business transaction] Prost! Calvin Candie: [toasting in kind] ... German.

Django Unchained

Adenoid Hynkel: [in the middle of a speech in which he rants in "German"] Phooey!

The Great Dictator

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

Martin Compston

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

Michael Cerveris