“ For , literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the and , it does not try to cheat itself by any bravado 'Till we meet again,' any se… Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“ But every once in a great while, the pull of her heritage would hit her, and Grand-mere would cook something real. I could never figure out what it was that triggered her, but I would come home from s… Stacey Ballis
“ There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. Kate Atkinson
“ Warner laces his boots and sings the songs and marches the marches, acting less out of duty than out of a time worn desire to be dutiful. Anthony Doerr
“ Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora) Elizabeth von Arnim
“ The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. John Oliver
“ She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-smiled secret. No more than a few meters, it was a long walk to the drop sheets and the assortment of… Markus Zusak
“ If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Irishman who actually was stupid, a mother-in-law wh… Douglas Adams
“ Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed. Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise. Friedrich Hecker
“ Man mag noch so viel über die beliebte Dreiecksthematik des Theaters schimpfen; zwei Personen alleine auf der Bühne, was sollen sie tun, als sich totdiskutieren oder insgeheim nach dem Dritten sehnen. Gunter Grass
“ Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be s… Alexander McCall Smith
“ Cases of typhoid take the following course:When the fever is at its height, life calls out to the patient: calls out to him as he wanders in his distant dream, and summons him in no uncertain voice. T… Thomas Mann
“ The sky is blue today, Max, and there is a big long cloud, and it's stretched out, like a rope. At the end of it, the sun is like a yellow hole..." Max, at that moment, knew that only a child could ha… Markus Zusak
