I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The trouble was that most of the time Patton was playing the role of Lazarus at the big feast of the Allied… — Ladislas Farago Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
“HMS Belfast is a gunship of 11,000 tons, commissioned in 1939, which saw active service in the Second World War. Since then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the history of warfare, a succession of bold ideas and weapons had promised to curb the tyranny of distance. The horse… — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Mildred Elizabeth Sisk later named Mildred Elizabeth Gillars was born in Portland, Maine on November 29, 1900. In 1929, Gillars left the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
“Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
My father earned his citizenship by serving in the Army during World War II. He devoted his life to caring for our… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War.… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“dramatically, but helium gas was 10 times as expensive. Under these conditions, Dr. Eckener, a pilot whose primary concern was safety and… — John Provan Copy Share Image
My father was an officer in the Army, and my grandfather served in World War II, and I am so proud of… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
