Top 1200 German History Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

German virtues are now about technically good players playing attacking football.

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

Beneath every history, another history.

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

Imagine a history teacher making history.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

When I was elected to head the German government, I was fortunate enough to find a partner in Francois Mitterrand.

The idea of a judgment of history is secularism's vain, meaningless, hopeless, pathetic attempt to devise a substitute for what the great Abrahamic traditions of faith know is the final judgment of almighty God, who is not an impersonal force. History is not God. God is God. History is not our judge. God is our Judge.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

While we read history we make history.

You are doing something over here and over there someone is telling you a joke, or giving you an important piece of information about sanitation, and no matter how weird the other subject is, there is a connection, or you can make a connection. I’ve always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

I have two dogs, a springer spaniel and a German shepherd. One of them's name is Nolan Arenado.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of the Spirit. The supreme instance of this-the key to the Christian understanding of history-is to be found in the Incarnation- the presence of the maker of the world in the world unknown to the world. ... The Incarnation is itself in a sense the divine fruit of history-of the fullness of time-and it finds its extension and completion in the historic life of the Church.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.

If people really want to know and learn from history, why do they want bad history? Why don't they want good history? Wouldn't you rather know the truth, rather than the legend?

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a gifted child.

My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.

Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.

The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.

The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.