Top 64 Quotes About Munich
#1. My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
Ian Millar
#2. Our goal was Munich in Bavaria in southern Germany, the town where Hitler had gotten his start in a beer hall. But on the way, we made a stop to liberate the concentration camp at Dachau.
Charles Brandt
#3. Late in February, she stood on Munich Street and watched a single giant cloud come over the hills like a white monster. It climbed the mountains. The sun was eclipsed, and in its place, a white beast with a gray heart watched the town.
Markus Zusak
#4. Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.
Jim McKay
#5. I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
James Rosenquist
#6. Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.
Adolf Hitler
#7. A club like Bayern Munich, which shuns debt, is in fact missing a trick. Bayern could easily borrow a few hundred million dollars to make itself invincible against human opposition on the long term.
Simon Kuper
#8. I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#9. When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
Joseph Goebbels
#10. A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.
Gerhard Richter
#12. At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F.L. Lucas
#13. If, as we decided in Munich, there will be a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian assistance can flow into Syria - then this will open the door for the beginning of the political transition process.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#14. Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Brendan
#15. I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.
Skitch Henderson
#16. Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.
Chris Huhne
#17. I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.
Adolf Hitler
#18. The people on the streets just say 'hi' and let me walk on. They take relatively few photos, and those that do are tourists. Munich natives are relatively relaxed. They pretty much leave me in peace and I think that's very good. The Bavarian mentality fits very well to me.
Manuel Neuer
#19. There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
Zubin Mehta
#20. Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Steven Spielberg
#21. Be yourself, you will not get a second chance to.
- Daniel, Age 12, Munich, Germany, October 14
R.J. Palacio
#22. Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.
George Steiner
#23. On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
Josef Albers
#24. In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.
Paul Heyse
#25. My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation.
Marcel Duchamp
#26. Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.
Arjen Robben
#27. A fact regarding Max Vandenburg
He would search the faces on Munich street for a book-thieving girl.
Markus Zusak
#28. Herr Thiessen is always pleased when the circus arrives in his native Germany, but this time he is particularly delighted that it has arrived quite near Munich, so there is no need for him to secure rooms in another city. Also,
Erin Morgenstern
#29. Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
Rachel Johnson
#30. They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.
Simon Brotherton
#31. I love the city and the people of Munich. I have many great friends there.
Steve Purdy
#32. The stadium here in Munich is the best of the lot for me. It is absolutely fantastic, especially the way it lights up a different colour according to who is playing. It's superb.
Claudia Schiffer
#33. Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich.
Ian Kershaw
#34. The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
Daniel Craig
#35. My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.
Jimmy Carl Black
#36. I cried when Mario Gotze told me hell leave Borussia Dortmund & join Bayern Munich
Marco Reus
#37. I got 'Munich' after I had done 'In Treatment' in Israel, which was very successful. But, when I actually shot it, nobody knew it was going to be sold all over the world and be so successful.
Ayelet Zurer
#38. Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
Michel Seuphor
#39. The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
Alfred Jodl
#40. If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
Franz Beckenbauer
#42. I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
Graham Coxon
#43. The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
Mark Spitz
#44. The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
Anatole France
#45. We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
Oliver Kahn
#46. When I was running the marathons in Munich, I always trained by myself. Between the demands of graduate work and a young family, I had to train at unusual hours. A few times, I ran home from my lab late at night, which was 20 kilometers out of town.
Wolfgang Ketterle
#47. Under the ground, in Munich, Germany, two people stood and spoke in a basement. It sounds like the beginning of a joke:
'There's a Jew and a German standing in a basement, right?...'
This, however, was no joke.
Markus Zusak
#48. After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
Karl Von Frisch
#49. As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
Brian Williams
#50. For Reagan,for his contemporaries, and many in the generations after them, the word Munich was understood as code for any nation's stepping back from necessary toughness
Chris Matthews
#51. those who attended the lecture course supported my views. The consequence of it all was that, a few days later, I was assigned to a regiment then stationed at Munich and given a position there as 'instruction officer.' At that time the spirit of discipline was rather weak-among those troops. It
Adolf Hitler
#52. 'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
Marcel Duchamp
#54. In Munich, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a rare European NATO leader who has a clear picture of events, told Merkel that the choice was "surrender or arm Ukraine" - to no effect.
Anonymous
#55. I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.
Rick Atkinson
#56. I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas ... Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow - before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.
Wassily Kandinsky
#57. Worse than Munich with worse than Chamberlain!
Peter Paret
#58. The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.
Gary Neville
#59. I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
Adolf Hitler
#60. Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
Golda Meir
#62. The Greatest" is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
Mike Parry
#63. I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him.
Steve Merrick
#64. If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.
Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938.
Jan Masaryk
