High German Word

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

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.”
—Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948)

“a word is elegy to what it signifies.”
—Robert Hass (b. 1941)