#world war

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

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#american #american people #been #catastrophe #condolences

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

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

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#agriculture #consumed #economic #finding #first

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#calls #camps #chambers #concentration #detail

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 the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#chambers #concentration #five #gas #gas chambers

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

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 of the Blitz. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#blitz #brought #deal #did #great