“ When I was a kid, we would travel to England in our car, from Germany, and listen to storybook tapes and one of them was the Hobbit. So we were aware of Bilbo and Gandalf and all that kind of stuff. ”
- Dominic Monaghan- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries. ”
- Dominic Monaghan- Copy
- 3.4K
“ We are a cult in most places, and I like that. Japan has a lot of love to give the Bluetones. When we go to Spain, France and Germany, it's not big budget swanky time! ”
- Dave Mason- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up? ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany. ”
- Thomas Kretschmann- Copy
- 2K
“ Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. ”
- Horst Koehler- Copy
- 979
“ The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ”
- Alex Levin- Copy
- 712
“ I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany. ”
- Pete Best- Copy
- 804
“ To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ”
- John Carpenter- Copy
- 2K
“ Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. ”
- Lady Marguerite Blessington- Copy
- 1.6K
“ There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters. ”
- Alan Cranston- Copy
- 1.9K
“ While I was in the U.S. Navy I was a crack marksman. I have a collection of guns at home in New Mexico and the guns in this case were given to me by friends in Germany for that collection. I guess I just brandished one in a moment of temper. ”
- Gene Vincent- Copy
- 2.8K
“ One has to fill up the heart with Knowledge. The Knowledge has a form that's called 'upadesh'. There are many countries such as England, Germany, and India, but Knowledge is not this kind of country. This country is something different. Knowledge is the thing that when it is realized, a person becomes free. ”
- Prem Rawat- Copy
- 374
“ I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country. ”
- Harry Houdini- Copy
- 883
“ The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China. ”
- Steve Forbes- Copy
- 922
“ Madrid is a wonderful city despite the politics that consist almost entirely of bravado and passion. Madrilenos lack the surly arrogance of the Parisians and the moral righteousness of Berliners. Spanish cowardice in withdrawing troops from Iraq is more complicated than that of either France or Germany, which never sent troops to deal with Saddam Hussein. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
- 2.8K
“ In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist… ”
- Martin Niemoeller- Copy
- 4K
“ The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provided you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking… ”
- James E. Burke- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, "God speed her!" She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind. ”
- William E. Gladstone- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
- 2.2K
“ How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which… 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of students have learned to critique tactfully? ”
- Barbara J. Alexander- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany… ”
- Hermann Goering- Copy
- 1.6K
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