But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

- Ernst Zundel

The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.

- Helmut Schmidt

I'm ashamed to be German.

- Helmut Jahn

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

- Heinrich Boll

All German women are beautiful.

- Heidi Klum

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

- Gordon Sinclair

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

- Gerhard Schroder

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

- Fritz Sauckel

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

- Franz Grillparzer

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

- Emilie Autumn

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

- Alfred Rosenberg

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

- Edwin Moses

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

- Edward Sapir

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

- Diane Kruger

When I'm working with German audiences, I will call on my Rilke and Goethe in the original.

- David Whyte

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

- Courtney Gains

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

- Claudia Schiffer

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

- Bernhard Langer

The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.

- Ben Hecht

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

- Billy Wilder