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
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird. — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Currently reading one of the many examples of the Japanese atrocities inflicted on other Asian- Pacific communities during World War II. Definitely… — Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas Copy Share Image
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
“The discovery of curium was part of the Manhattan Project, so it stayed secret until World War II ended. It was supposed… — Sybrina Durant Copy Share Image
One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“If you want to save seeds from year to year, you need to grow open-pollinated varieties. The words “heirloom” and “open-pollinated” are… — Katie Elzer-Peters Copy Share Image
“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
“What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“For decades afterwards, I punished myself with images of Sofia standing naked in the snow, shivering, clutching a chunk of cement that… — Helen Maryles Shankman Copy Share Image
“The irony, of course, is that not long ago, it was Trump’s own ancestors—German American immigrants—who were the demons of the day,… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times. — Rasika Dugal Copy Share Image
My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. — Selma Diamond Copy Share Image
World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
So, I mean, what's it like being old? It's gotta be weird, right? I mean, you saw a lotta stuff go down.… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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