#world war

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#concerts #conduct #even #had #i

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. ↗

— George McGovern

#did #flamboyant #frequently #i #ii

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into. ↗

— Harry Browne

#been #decades #great #i #ii

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#crime #foreign #foreign policy #greatest #ii

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#back #father #got #greenwich #greenwich village

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ↗

— George Crumb

#after #electronically #enormous #general #had

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#grandmother #her #ii #life #me

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#been #had #i #messed #messed up

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general