World War Ii Quotes

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.

History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.

One day this war will end. And when it does, Tule Lake will be just a memory.

No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!

They would never forget the war. The world wouldn’t let them, and neither would history.

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

The world is not static and the status quo is not sacred.

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us.

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

It is well to remember that the stomach governs the world, " wrote Churchill when planning the feeding of his troops on the north-west Indian frontier at the tail-end of the nineteenth century.

Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.