German
German(s) may refer to:
- something deriving from or relating to Germany
- the German language, spoken in Germany and nearby countries
- Germans, a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe
- Ethnic Germans, a person who is of German descent
- Germanic peoples, any of the historical Germanic peoples
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Famous quotes containing the word german:
“Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,—
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term “unconditional surrender.” ... The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech—in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)