West Germany Quotes

#1. I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

Matthea Harvey

#2. When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#3. The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

Brian Mulroney

#4. West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

John Helm

#5. Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There

Eric Von Hippel

#6. If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

Robert Kennedy

#7. And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.

Stefan Heym

#8. The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

Gordon Sinclair

#9. My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.

Greg Iles

#10. You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

Kim Dae-jung

#11. Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

Stefan Heym

#12. I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

Daniel Breaker

#13. Once their gaze turned back toward Europe, the puzzle dissolved: West Germany was the obvious equivalent and, indeed, a splendid candidate for the role of the global plan's European shock-absorbing pillar - certainly not Britain.

Yanis Varoufakis

#14. There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other side whether it was former East or former West Germany.

Christian Schwochow

#15. 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

George Scratchley Brown

#16. A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

Stefan Heym

#17. At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

Angela Merkel

#18. American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

Robert Kuttner

#19. My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

Andrei Codrescu

#20. If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.

Stefan Heym

#21. Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#23. Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Sergei Lavrov

#24. Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.

Steve Maraboli

#25. Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

Sri Chinmoy

#26. I felt a little lost as a student. At Iowa, I felt as if I had gotten into this program that was going to save me, and so I moved myself across the country for grad school and yet still didn't have a home. It was upsetting. And I know that's a common feeling.

John D'Agata

#27. You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.

Stephen Curry

#28. The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

Roger Altman

#29. A SASSY SOUTHERN FEMALE CAN WRITE A LOVE STORY AS WELL AS A MALE...IF Y'ALL GET MY DRIFT.

Lola Faye Arnold

#30. If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

Lech Walesa

#31. The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won't let me turn the traction control off!

Jeremy Clarkson

#32. My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

Joachim Von Ribbentrop

#33. It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years.

Pax Prentiss

#34. I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.

Cher Lloyd

#35. The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

Angela Merkel

#36. It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

James F. Byrnes

#37. Our country is Germany
one country that should be reunited. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We're not cowards.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#38. We turn to books to prove that we exist.

Sassafras Lowrey

#39. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.

Krista Tippett