Top 494 Germany Quotes

How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
Park Chung-hee
Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.
Martin Jacques
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd
I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
Angela Merkel
When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he’d done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.
Kris Kristofferson
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlanti

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
Wendell Willkie
For all it is a smaller country in terms of geography, Holland is the most closely aligned market to the U.K. in terms of trend. It is a big nation of card-makers and paper crafters, and Germany’s market is at least five times larger than over here.
Sara Davies
I am a national player myself and I know how special it is to play for Germany.
Joshua Kimmich
I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.
Apparat
Since childhood, I’d dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.
Gao Xingjian
I played in Germany which is quite a physical league.
Teemu Pukki
I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn’t actually win anything.
Roberto Firmino
Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
Michael Strahan
Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that’s kind of weird for me.
Megan Rapinoe
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it’s a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I’ve always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry
India needs jobs, Germany needs people, and collaboration is crucial to meet the demographic needs of both countries.
Angela Merkel
I cannot rule anything out but my goal is to stay in England. I feel very comfortable there and I’ve performed well. There I would be accepted. In Germany it was a bit different and I had ups and downs.
Marko Arnautovic
I love Germany. Unfortunately, I had to leave because there wasn’t any MMA clubs where I could train and continue to learn there.
Yoel Romero
You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can’t guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.
Fernando Alonso
I come from Maceio, where it is very hot all year around. I moved to Florinoples in the south, which is very cold. I passed the tests that were asked of me there, and that got me the move to Germany. I could have stayed in Brazil, but I wanted the challenge.
Roberto Firmino
There’s so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.
Bill Kaulitz
‘Hunger Games’ is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It’s more similar to China than America, but it’s also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.
Elizabeth Banks
Coach education in Germany is actually very good, but I do not understand why many coaches do not have the guts to push through an idea when they have lost two or three times.
Ilkay Gundogan
As a nation, we English tend to be self-deprecating, looking down on ourselves. We’re insular but also flexible, whereas in Germany, it’s a case of besser wissen – we know better. That’s very Deutsch. People are never frightened to tell you what you’re doing wrong, in a way that would never happen in England.
Simon Rattle
Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.
Hjalmar Schacht
I feel German, that’s for sure. I grew up in Germany, I went to school in Germany and most of my friends are there. I play for Germany.
Angelique Kerber
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
Brunello Cucinelli
In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad – of which I think marriage to my dad might have been worse – my mother had a very difficult and complicated life.
David Baddiel
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances – in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
Marlene Dietrich
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
Jose Rizal
Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.
Louis van Gaal
Besides Germany, the only countries that don’t have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it’s a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.
Sigmar Gabriel
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
George J. Mitchell
Theoretically in Germany there is more space because it is less tactical.
Ciro Immobile
Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.
Mia Wasikowska
I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian i

I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school… everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy… And being an actor, I’ve been able to use it quite a bit.
Tom Wlaschiha
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
Kim Dae Jung
We’re no longer scared of these nations – the Germany, U.S.A., and Frances.
Toni Duggan
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
Cecelia Ahern
If the Asian financial crisis had the impact of accelerating China’s rise, the transatlantic financial crisis has had the effect of accelerating Germany’s rise.
Sanjaya Baru
Germany’s historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it – and you should judge us on it.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Germany, when you’re a young player, is the best. There are lots of young talents here, and people have faith in them.
Ousmane Dembele
Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany.
Douglas Hurd
I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot.
Zaytoven
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940.
Michael Korda
At some point, I stumbled across my two main protagonists: William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered professor of history picked by Roosevelt to be America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd’s comely and rather wild daughter, Martha, who at first was enthralled with the so-called Nazi revolution.
Erik Larson
Mumbai is home to us. Medina was born in Munich because Roya’s family lives in Germany and she had five sisters to help her while I was travelling for work.
Adnan Sami
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
Walter Gropius
For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions.
Werner Heisenberg
My mum said: ‘Germany is our second home’ and it’s true. Germany gave us their open hands. I don’t know which country could have done that, at that time, to welcome refugees from Bosnia.
Dejan Lovren
Whenever Germany lose or play badly, there are 1,000 reasons. And no matter how many questions there are, we will never make everyone happy.
Thomas Muller
Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.
Sergei Lavrov
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
Gustav Stresemann
All economies are structured differently – the tax systems, the regulatory systems, the federal systems – and that is as true of Australia and the United States as it is of Australia and Germany and the U.K.
Scott Morrison