I think it has been a tremendous feat on the part of East Germans since 1990 to adapt to everything changing.

- Angela Merkel

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

- Angela Merkel

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

- Anton Rubinstein

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

- Christopher Heyerdahl

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

- Gary Lineker

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

- J. G. Ballard

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

- John Badham

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

- John Lothrop Motley

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

- Lee Iacocca

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

- Marlene Dietrich

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

- Rory MacLean

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

- Siegfried Sassoon

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

- Umberto Eco

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

- Walter Ulbricht