High German Word

Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:

    “I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
    And not in paths of high morality,
    And not among the half-distinguished faces,
    The clouded forms of long-past history.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    “Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “The symmetrical piles of white bodies,
    the round white breast-shapes of the heaps,
    the smell of the smoke, the dogs the wires the
    rope the hunger. It had happened to others.
    There was a word for us. I was: a Jew.”
    —Sharon Olds (b. 1942)