German Quotes

German Quote of the day

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

Life is too short to learn German

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

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

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

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

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.

All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

On the steps leading to a doorwas a scrub brush that was blue.I snatched it quick and ran for homebecause it was just the thing to chew.

Sturm und Drang?”“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, ‘storm and stress.’

Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rollerOf wars, wars, wars ...

It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization.

In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.

And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a remembered hill, the smile of a beloved face.

The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

Truth like beauty seems to be in the eye and mind of the beholder

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta