D Day Quotes
45 quotes by 44 authors
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the…
— Mac Thornberry
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There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost…
— Tom Brokaw
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
— Nancy Gibbs
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The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st…
— Carlo D'Este
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The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
— Antony Beevor
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Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of…
— George S. Patton
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I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until…
— Hannah Simone
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D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It…
— Stephen Ambrose
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The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from…
— Richard Dawson
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What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general…
— Ben Macintyre
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I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago…
— Eddie Izzard
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How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
— James Grahame
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Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just…
— Bruce Sterling
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
— Muhammad Ali
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Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday…
— Emile M. Cioran
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which…
— Ridley Scott
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G-get up O-open ur eyes O-out of ur bed D-day has risen M-merry life O-old dreams cum true R-rise$shine N-new frnds I-ideas of life N-nice…
— Dianne Samathan
Who Wrote These D Day Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 45 D Day Quotes, led by these top contributors: