Swiss German Quotes

#1. You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

Emeril Lagasse

#2. She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Anne Sexton

#3. I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#4. Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Karl Barth

#5. It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

Daniel Keys Moran

#6. I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.

Shemar Moore

#7. The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

A.E. Housman

#8. I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

Klaus Schwab

#9. Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

John Lawson

#10. The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Hannah Simone

#11. What would be revealed if American corporations were examined through the same sharp lens of historical confrontation as the one then being trained on German corporations that relied on Jewish slave labor during World War II and the Swiss banks that robbed victims of the Holocaust of their fortunes?

Douglas A. Blackmon