Second World Quotes

125 quotes by 110 authors

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame
Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation… — Christopher Heyerdahl
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia. — Jeremy Irvine
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used. — Naoto Kan
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a â€˜living historyâ€™ that concerns… — Irina Bokova
The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world… — Harry S. Truman
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch
I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be… — Craig Ferguson
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost… — Larry Hagman
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at… — Alexander Haig
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill… — Tom Hodgkinson
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991,… — Charles Krauthammer
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. — Doris Lessing
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in… — Steven Pinker
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal… — Harold Pinter
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims… — Jeffrey Sachs
When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted… — Grace Slick

Who Wrote These Second World Quotes

110 authors contributed a total of 125 Second World Quotes, led by these top contributors: