274 Quotes About Germany

Britain and Germany thought they were winning World War II by trying to bomb the other into submission. In reality, they were destroying themselves as global powers, and (ironically, similar to one of the firestorms their city bombings caused), creating a vacuum on the world stage that the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to fill as superpowers in the post-war years.

They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.

I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window:TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAINPENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS.She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said."Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.

And at the end of the evening he and Dym had made plans, airy ambitious plans, of all that they would do after the war. Euphemia had laughed at the planners. “What boundless energy you have, Jacob!” she had said.Jacob had turned - Tony could see the dark, curly head and sparkling eyes quite plainly - and smiled at her. “Madam,” he had said, “if I had a thousand lives, I could fill them all.

Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

Every county has its sacred culture.

Something breathing, something bleeding, something blue.It was time to cast her first spell as the Gargoyle.