Second World War Quotes

117 Second World War quotes by 103 unique authors

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic… — Angela Carter
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain… — Mark Steyn
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,… — Pope John Paul II
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost… — Carol Vorderman
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a… — Bernard Levin
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'… — Dave Brubeck
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians. — Traian Basescu
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 ‘living history’ that concerns… — Irina Bokova
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

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