World War I Quotes

I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were 'German dogs.' They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

Molly Ivins

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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Lester B. Pearson

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

Ivica Dacic

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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

Forrest Bird

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In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

Michael Korda

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The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

Kerry Greenwood

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I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.

Frank Scott

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Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Michael Korda

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I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

James Rosenquist

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We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

Daniel Yergin

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I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

Diane Kruger

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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Herman Kahn

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After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'

Dave Brubeck

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The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.

Douglas Brinkley

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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

Eric Kandel

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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

Ben Barnes

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Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.

Andrea Riseborough

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The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Peggy Noonan

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On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Eliot Engel

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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Yoko Ono

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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Amity Shlaes

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One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.

Sebastian Junger

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Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

Saul David

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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Vanna Bonta

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