It’s difficult to beat German teams. They don’t play as attractively as, for example, you have it in the English league or in the Spanish league. But to break a German team is not very easy.
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven’t used it since 1985, so I’m a bit rusty.
Nobody has a better product than the German Bundesliga. We have the most spectators in the stadiums. We have the best stadiums. We have the most goals. We have very good teams. We have high-level international players with big names.
George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.
The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation of their property and the purchase and export of German goods to break the boycott of Germany’s Nazi-controlled economy.
I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the University of California. With no Greek or French and minimal Latin and German, I was in no position to pursue my classical interests, so I began work at Berkeley with little more than an open mind.
When I was elected to head the German government, I was fortunate enough to find a partner in Francois Mitterrand.
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.
Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren’t we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe’s unity?
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
I always thought it hadn’t influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
There’s a big difference between when I’m Tom and when I’m Conchita. Conchita uses very proper German; Tom talks in an Austrian dialect. Conchita gets mad if she is kept waiting; Tom is lazy.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds – we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.
The typical German coach wants things done one way – his way.
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I’m a bit of a muddle.
It’s my given, full name. Finn’s not short for anything; it’s just Finn Wolfhard. And then Wolfhard means, I think, heart of the wolf in German.
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, ‘Um, am I black enough?’ – and I guess specifically, ‘Am I German enough?’ Why are we measuring blackness?
We really want to be successful in America, we really want to try it. There are not so many German bands who get the chance to come to America to play.
Indeed, the Royal Family still retain the German custom – introduced by Prince Albert – of opening their presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning.
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.
People in the West tend to identify with western victims. So even when they think about the Holocaust, they really think about the German or French victims; they’re not thinking about the Polish, Hungarian, or Soviet victims.
I find it hard to write really cool texts in German. At some point I had the feeling that it didn’t work for me any more. So I’d rather not write any German songs at all than write uncool ones.
Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It’s German, but not provincial.
My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
The Spanish and German leagues are of a very high standard. Along with the Premier League, they are probably the best.
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.
Being German, I think we don’t really express a lot of things.
I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.
I understand German; I can read German.
I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
In Germany, Jens Lehmann was a model style for a German goalkeeper.
I was born in Germany and grew up immersed in international school communities. I was in the German bilingual track, spent a few years in rural Canada, and then went to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy.
I’m very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
Rammstein’s music demands German lyrics.
There’s no better way for me to end my time with the German team than by winning the World Cup.
The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn’t understand and didn’t know where it was coming from.
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.
I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.
I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you’re a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.
Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose in a vocabulary book – usually in French or German.
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
In German, there are only so many things you can write about.
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic – like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he’s not too much better than I am!
I’m actually more German than Scottish. I’m half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.
My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called ‘Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.’
My father, Reginald Francois, was a D-Day veteran. He never submitted to bullying by any German, and neither will his son.
I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.
The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
Good movies are my weakness. I have seen several international movies ranging from English to Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.
I would be absolutely delighted if I were to have a career similar to that of Schweinsteiger, both at club and international level. We all know what he has done for German football. It is an honour to be likened to him.
