Quotes of: Korean-peninsula Keyword

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Ban Ki-moon

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

Clint Eastwood

In Toronto and Los Angeles, too, there are a lot of Koreans - Koreatown, Korean markets. I feel like I'm at home and very comfortable.

Yuna Kim

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Aly Khan

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Clint Eastwood

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Chang-Rae Lee

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Paul Robeson

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Park Chan-wook

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

Barton Gellman

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.

Robert Jay Lifton

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

Charles B. Rangel

When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

Ban Ki-moon

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Chuck Feeney

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

[...] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man.

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

Kim Dae Jung

A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

Kim Ji-woon