World war Quotes

The next World War will be over water

— Ismail Serageldin

“Lovely morning, World War Two.”

— Thomas Pynchon

My two grandfathers fought in World War II.

— Ainsley Earhardt

My father was in the First World War.

— Doris Lessing

We learned the value of research in World War II.

— Amar Bose

I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.

— Peter Jackson

If I looked like Hiter, I'd go on world war too.

— Nikhil Saluja

The threat of a world war is no more.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.”

— Robert J. Gordon

I served in World War II in our fight to defeat fascism.

— Carl Reiner

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

— William Blum

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

— Paul Wolfowitz

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

— Stephen Ambrose

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

— Robyn Davidson

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“the story of these men of the Second World War is another”

— Nathan M. Greenfield

“At the start of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was often described as a dwindling power, mired by administrative corruption, using…

— Charles River Editors

Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the…

— Thomas S. Monson

It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.

— Adrian Dunbar

In the United States, after World War II, it took about two decades for the message to slowly seep in that inflation…

— Murray Rothbard

Winston Churchill never said that people had let him down when he lost the elections after the World War II.

— Raj Thackeray

It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S.…

— Erik Larson

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

— James A. Garfield

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but…

— Harri Holkeri

I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of…

— Jimmy Carter

My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches…

— Richard Branson

“President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War…

— Annie Jacobsen

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate…

— Lynne Reid Banks

“Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty…

— Dennis Prager

The two sides that fought in World War I lived in the same century but in different places. The same is true…

— Haim Harari

“During the Second World War a giant puffball was found under an oak tree in Kent, and was suspected of being a…

— Richard Mabey

“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement…

— David L. Calof

“I built, of blocks, a town three hundred thousand strong, whose avenues were paved with a wine-colored rug and decorated by large…

— William H. Gass

I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity,…

— Seamus Heaney

“Berryman" I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second…

— W.S. Merwin

I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus…

— Rush Limbaugh

“With boarding passes in hand Adeline led her children, each carrying a small suitcase, up the long gangway onto the Dominion Monarch,…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

“In World War II, 35,933 AAF planes were lost in combat and accidents. The surprise of the attrition rate is that only…

— Laura Hillenbrand

I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you…

— Paul R. Ehrlich