1940 Quotes
Collection of top 24 famous quotes about 1940
1940 Quotes & Sayings
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If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?
— P.G. Wodehouse
Beginning in 1940, ... questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer ... the proportion of 'cancer' cures ... increased rapidly ...
— Hardin B. Jones
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country ... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
— Terry Gilliam
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
— Ransom Riggs
We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.
— Bob Cousy
If liberal government was to be saved, [the British people of 1940] would have to be the ones to save it.
— Brooke C. Stoddard
On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.
— Leopold Trepper
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
— Alexis Korner
When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.
— John Eisenhower
This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)
— Virginia Woolf
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
— Jeffrey Deitch
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940) — James Thurber
By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
— Walter Isaacson
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.
— Larry MacPhail
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
— Harold Pinter
I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.
— Johnny Gimble
I would love to play a 1940's style fast-talking reporter lady. That's probably the dream.
— Grace Phipps
It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.
— Anthony Doerr