Top 494 Germany Quotes

China and Germany are important geo-economic powers that have been able to bolster their geo-political and even military power, thanks to the opportunity provided by their geo-economic rise.
Sanjaya Baru
I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and when I was becoming a professional footballer, I felt like a German.
Leroy Sane
It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know where my roots are, and I know that I’ve been born and raised in Germany. I see myself as a German, and I like to show that.
Jerome Boateng
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the ’30s, East Germany in the ’50s, Czechoslovakia in the ’60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the ’70s, China in the ’80s and ’90s – all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
Naomi Wolf
I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
Skitch Henderson
It would be a huge honour for me to wear the armband for Germany as the first black captain ever.
Jerome Boateng
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
Sigmar Gabriel
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.
Paul Theroux
I don’t want my son to grow up in a Britain that puts a limit on his ambition; I want him to be free to join thousands of British students, studying at colleges and universities in Germany, France and the rest of Europe.
Nicky Morgan
I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears flowed down my cheeks because I knew then that my full-time service in the Church had ended.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
If the Chinese can’t buy U.S. products, they’ll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke
Germany are a tournament team. I don’t know why that is, perhaps the mentality. We always look forward to tournaments. We also believe we can always perform well.
Thomas Muller
No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
Charles Lindbergh
If you look at the Greek economic record, it’s been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of the Great Depression. And after having a Depression-sized event, they’ve cut the unit-labor cost in Greece – they’ve closed something like half the gap with Germany.
Austan Goolsbee
We’ve played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.
Ben Howard
Originally developed in Germany in the 18th Century, ice wine is made from grapes that have been left on the vines until deep winter when the fruits, frozen by ice, contain more concentrated sugar. Only then are they are harvested, sometimes at night.
Carol Drinkwater
In Germany, Jens Lehmann was a model style for a German goalkeeper.
Manuel Neuer
Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.
Tom Cotton
It’s really weird when we’re out of the country, whether we’re in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you’re in a different country, it’s really freaky and surreal.
Gary Rossington
Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany.
Gunter Grass
As the name of the agency suggests, ‘Department of Defense,’ the defense refers to the United States of America – not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.
Ann Coulter
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. St

It was fear. He didn’t want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn’t afford to let Germany build up again. They’d been invaded twice, and he wasn’t willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman
We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
Douglas Hurd
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.
Sigmar Gabriel
It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
Samuel P. Huntington
In England, I’m a horror movie director. In Germany, I’m a filmmaker. In the US, I’m a bum.
John Carpenter
My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.
Martin Landau
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
Nick Clooney
I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
Kevin McCarthy
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
Eugene Jarecki
The example afforded before the Great War by Germany – which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe – suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.
Isoroku Yamamoto
We… our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
Peter Shaffer
I’m going to France, I’m going to Germany, and I’m going to go wherever God sends me and gives me the strength.
Reinhard Bonnke
I know that many in Germany think we have a merry financial policy over here.
Paolo Gentiloni
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
Navid Negahban
We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive – 35,000 people.
Keith Flint
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
Stanley Hauerwas
When you come to a World Cup with Germany you are expected to win it.
Andre Schurrle
I’ve lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the ’80s. I don’t like being settled. It’s not really healthy.
Denny Laine
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
Susan Rice
The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe – pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.
Rich Cohen
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn’t want to write about, and I didn’t want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t wait to get away from it.
Philip Kerr
The euro is a potent tool used by Germany to engage in permanent monetary dumping.
Marine Le Pen
I think shows being sent out this way – pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and the U.K. and Germany, it’s very cool.
Jeffrey Tambor
Outside of North America, best football? Is Samoa North America? Probably Samoa. I’d say Samoa. Germany’s certainly up there.
Mike Leach
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann
Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich – and a return of anti-Semitism.
Luke Harding
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
Edward Grey
Fighting in Germany, Wladimir Klitschko makes so much money for everyone.
David Haye
I must say, the standard of football we play in League Two is better than I thought. I think, if you compared it with the fourth division in other countries, such as Italy, Germany and Spain, League Two is much, much better – and that’s very positive. The intensity and the tempo is as high as the Premier League.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
You’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe.
Donald Rumsfeld
My first flight was to Majorca as a 17-year-old and I went to Seattle to visit a friend after that. But the first time I really ventured out abroad to Canada and Japan as well as to Europe, to France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, was to promote my first album.
Corinne Bailey Rae
You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcomi

You didn’t just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany… Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
Helmut Kohl