Commitment Quote by Tom Brokaw

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The divorce rate in 1945 shot up to double that of the prewar years, to 31 divorces for every 100 marriages—or 502,000 in all.…

— James T. Patterson

When there's a war, people get married.

— Doris Lessing

World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they…

— Nick Nolte

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

— Tom Brokaw

“I read Tom Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation. This book celebrates the virtues of the generation that grew up between the two world wars.9…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The war was an escape to reality... The only thing that mattered were human relationships; not money, not position, not even family... Only relationships…

— William Wyler

“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they came into…

— Sidney Poitier

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have…

— Pete Buttigieg

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold…

— Dan B. Allender

“Never before in history had societies thought that such a set of high expectations about marriage was either realistic or desirable. Although many Europeans…

— Stephanie Coontz