Top 1200 German History Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.

Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very depressing, particularly the history of slavery. If slavery is presented properly, it's a great story. But I think that within the commercial world of storytelling in which I live, there haven't been many strong works that discuss slavery in ways that are palatable and funny and interesting to the reader.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.

It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

There's no better way for me to end my time with the German team than by winning the World Cup.

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

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

We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.

Pep Guardiola, when he was at Bayern Munich, he was able to reply in German in his first press conference.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.

Toni Kroos leaving the German national team would hurt me very much.

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

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

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

English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.

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

We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.