World War Quotes

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

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

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

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.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been, And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

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.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

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

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

I suppose we ought to be getting home, in any case.”“Oh god, is it wartime already?”“Look on the bright side: it’ll be dinner when we get back.

There in the sweet sacking smell of the mail bags he understood that he was dying, and it pleased him that he was going in the company of so many soft words home.

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.

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

A story is a wondrous invention.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

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.

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

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

The moment we stop caring for one another regardless of race..is the moment we lose our humanity.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.

I will be so glad for you to hear not the sounds of gunfire but the sounds of church bells, and of people working in peace.

She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.

...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.

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

Things I fear will forever change and we old souls can do little but be swayed by the winds.

What do you want? What do you want?...To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

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

The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.