Top 1200 German History Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.
Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.
What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.
History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.
Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.
The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.
Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.
You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He'll go down in history as maybe the greatest football coach in the history of this game, or going to be close to it.
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
We have a great squad at Bayern Munich and our German players are very important for us - we know their qualities and they are hungry for success.
I'm getting to enjoy the mentality of the British, the sarcasm, the dry humour. There are so many more ways of articulating yourself than in German.
I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.
I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany. It's a small country. You don't have as many great actors there, of course.
People are used to seeing natural history programmes that have been filmed over many years which are concentrated, focused visions of natural history.
To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
My father, Reginald Francois, was a D-Day veteran. He never submitted to bullying by any German, and neither will his son.
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
I can't think of many other laws we might need. For now, though, we'll be talking to German Muslims over issues of coexistence.
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.
You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.
History is one of the only fields where contributions by amateurs are taken seriously, providing you follow the rules and document your sources. In history, it's what you write, not what your credentials are.
There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.
Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.
The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
