World War Ii Quotes
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World War Ii Quotes & Sayings
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If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
— Max Von Essen
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
— Cathleen Schine
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
— Hugh Bonneville
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
— Dave Brubeck
Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
— Ross Perot
By 7:55 am on December 7, World War II in the Pacific had been in progress for more than eight hours.
— Jeffrey Cox
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
— Daniel Yergin
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
— Sebastian Junger
You just got sprung.""Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II. — James Lee Burke
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
— Bette Greene
In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.
— George Vecsey
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
— Mao Zedong
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
— Ken Follett
It reminded Freddy of the World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.
— Richard Phillips
Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II
— Charles M. Blow
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
— Selma Diamond
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
— Dan Rather
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
— Stephen Ambrose
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
— Thomas Friedman
The world is wrong. I'm just doing my part to fix it.
— Ryan Graudin
We're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.
— Ruta Sepetys
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
— Simone De Beauvoir
Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'
— Seth Numrich
In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others.
— Thomas Harding
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
— Paul Wolfowitz
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
— William Westmoreland
The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.
— Teresa R. Funke
I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.
— Edmund Ironside
World War II ... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.
— Graham Chapman
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
— Phil Donahue
Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.
— Sarah Sundin
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
— John Mearsheimer
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.
— Elizabeth Berg
And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
— Oliver North
... the last year had seen women and children carrying [gas] masks about as they carried a handbag or a skipping rope.
— Kristy Cambron
I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.
— Stefan Heym
Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead?
— Elizabeth Berg
Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.
— Jeff Greene
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
— Clint Eastwood
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
— Kenneth Joseph Arrow
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
— Stephen Kinzer
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
— Guy Sajer
I had done a guerrilla in World War II, so I had some knowledge of, of the the village life, and the way guerrillas worked.
— Roger Hilsman
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
— Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.
— David Hackworth
But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.
— Monica Hesse
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
The Purple Scar might have been a paper casualty of World War II.
— John S. Endicott
The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.
— John Allen Paulos
It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
— Patsy Asuncion
Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.
— Dana Gould
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
— Grace Murray Hopper
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
— John Eisenhower
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
— Elliott Abrams
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?
— Elizabeth Berg
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the "right side" of the war, ever heard - let alone answered?
— Kristina McMorris
Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel.
— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?
— Pat Buchanan
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
— Lane Evans
...They were nothing but numbers to the people who had started this war.
— Ellen Marie Wiseman
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.
— Martin Winterkorn
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank
You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.
— Markus Zusak
We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.
— Vandana Shiva
