Wwii Quotes

Wwii Quote of the day

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.

Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don't tend to talk.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

The dangers of the sea should always take precedenceover the violence of the enemy’Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and excrement worthy of something the weird sisters might have cooked up in Macbeth.

Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.

I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure

The weather gods are toying with us." - Dr. James Stagg

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

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.

I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.

I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I don’t believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.