There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“MOST CHILDREN BROUGHT UP IN BROOKLYN BEFORE THE FIRST World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
America felt victorious and generous after World War II. They had also learned from the mistakes after World War I when they… — George Soros Copy Share Image
To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was taken to something called Telenews in Cleveland by my best friend's father. My own father… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Today I will once more be a prophet. If the international Jewish financiers, inside and outside Europe, succeed in plunging the nations… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves… — Marcus Brotherton Copy Share Image
“The End of World War One Out of the scraped surface of the land men began to emerge, like puppies from the… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Tell the British people if the Iraqis are subjected to aggression or humiliation they would fight bravely. Just as the British people… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“May 1, 2011 Young jubulent Americans celebrating the killing of a murderer of women and children, and people ask; "Is it right… — Johnny Flora Copy Share Image
“I read Tom Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation. This book celebrates the virtues of the generation that grew up between the two… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Science and religion stand watch over different aspects of all our major flashpoints. May they do so in peace and reinforcement--and not… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“It reminded him of history lessons back in the world beyond the manor, whenever World War II came up in the curriculum.… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“The priorities of the traditional state were defense, public order, the prevention of epidemics and the aversion of mass discontent. But following… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We have huge holes in our education in the West. I think that we have little knowledge of Asian history. If you… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War.… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
Sixty million people died in the Second World War. World War II was a gigantic crime. We condemn it all. We are… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation.… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
America and the world have been great beneficiaries of the forward presence of the United States Navy around the globe since the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t a staring contest. It’s a land grab, the first of this scale since World War II. But… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image