Quotes of: War-correspondent Keyword

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Arne Glimcher

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The highest distinction is service to others.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

The Art of War

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Lech Walesa

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Lionel Blue

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

Ivica Dacic

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

George H. W. Bush

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

Leonardo DiCaprio

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

Sander Levin

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

Michael Scheuer

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

William S. Burroughs

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Robert Hass

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

Ashton Holmes

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

James Lovelock

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

Stella Blum

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Barry Commoner

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'

Seth Numrich

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.

Tina Brown

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Maya Lin