20th Century Germany Quotes

#1. The farmers had grown proud and haughty. They ate better than anyone else in Germany now. And, like Volkswagen and Siemens, they had slaves. All they had to do was feed the local Nazi power elite, and they could have all the slaves they wanted.

Edith Hahn Beer

#2. Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as

Karl Marx

#3. Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go ... By: Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks

#4. My focus each day is to be myself, live my true passions, inspire greater health and wear my soul shamelessly, with strength and grace.

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

#5. The thought of getting pregnant again is terrific birth control.

Bethany Lopez

#6. We heard that girls who had left to get married were being deported with their husbands. A girl who had a love affair with a French prisoner was sent to a concentration camp, and the Frenchman was executed.

Edith Hahn Beer

#7. Can we save the live demo for later, please? Bean Sidhe in angst, here.

Rachel Vincent

#8. You can only wrestle with something for just so long. Then you have to break in one direction or another. Just to end the wrestling. Something has to give.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. It's not about having a specific set time; both personal and professional lives are 24/7. It's simply, more about making the right allocation to each one and recognizing that it's going to be different every single day

Ellen J. Kullman

#10. When Frieda, Trude, Lucy, and I walked to work, the German children hooted at us: "Jewish swine!" In town, the shopkeepers would not even sell us a beer. I wrote to Mama that Osterburg was a friendly town.

Edith Hahn Beer

#11. Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

Richard Jeni

#12. When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

H.G.Wells

#13. The high-strung Frieda made the mistake of telling Frau Fleschner that she had a toothache. She was taken to a dentist. He pulled ten of her teeth! After one day, they put her back in the fields, spitting blood. She was twenty-one years old.

Edith Hahn Beer

#14. At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn't show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.

Edith Hahn Beer

#16. What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

Emma Stone

#17. The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

Steve Forbes

#18. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.

Jen Lancaster

#19. Finn never looks more excited - he just gets faster. Finns are generally slow-moving creatures.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. Berta, whose boyfriend had walked so far to see her, went out without her star and was immediately arrested and sent to a concentration camp.

Edith Hahn Beer