Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
Chief Scientist: Our Germans are better than their Germans.
Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
Erik Lehnsherr: What brings you to Argentina? 1st German: The climate. I'm a pig farmer. 2nd German: Tailor, since I was a boy. My father made the best suits in Dusseldorf. Erik Lehnsherr: My parents came from Dusseldorf. 1st German: What was their n...
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
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.
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.
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
The Italian invents it; the Frenchman makes it; the Germans sell it; the Pole buys it and the Tartar plunders it.
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.
By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western Christian civilisation': France, imperial Germany, the Habsburg Reich, Poland with its self-image as przedmurze (...
