Wwii Quotes Quotes

“If you had a secret - one that could destroy your life if shared, what would you do to protect it?”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

“There’s no clearer definition of war than the sight of barbed wired fences surrounding dark fields muddied by the sky’s tears.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

“Whenever you feel like the world is against you, start counting your breaths. One breath every five seconds will show anyone who is watching that you haven’t a worry in the world.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

“The empty seats belong to the other Jewish kids who were in my class. I’m the only one left.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

“You’re right to fight for everything you believe in, and I’ll do “the same, but only until it is too dangerous. I won’t risk our lives for a fight we won’t win.”
― Shari J. Ryan, The Nurse Behind the Gates

“We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not just going to shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.”
― Gen. George S. Patton

“The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes -- eh -- a little bit longer.”
― U.S. Navy Seabees Construction Battalions WWII

“Did the rest of the Austrians understand what was happening to the Jews? Did they understand that we were being dispossessed, that we were beginning to go hungry? By way of answer let me tell you a story. Once after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. "But I am Jewish," I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.”
― Edith Hahn Beer a

“The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Pierre knew exactly what he meant. It is an easy way, and because it is so easy, it might be difficult. People could get lost in endless circles, just like on the savannah. The outstanding scenery might easily capture a person´s attention and mislead them.”
― Margareth Stewart, The war

“Once, in a village cafeteria, a woman asked how he would like his coffee.
"Serve as in Hell, boiling hot.”
― Margareth Stewart, The war

“My generation heard stories of WWII. These were first-hand accounts of the tragedies, the victories, the incredible losses, and of liberty won. We in turn, pass down these stories, reminding the youth of today that democracy is a privilege, and the price for our freedom came at a terrible cost.”
― Arlene Stafford-Wilson, Lanark County Calling: All Roads Lead Home

“The trouble with these Nazis is that they have no self-critical faculty, so in their efforts to achieve greatness, they achieve nothing but a parody of greatness. Caesar conquered nations, took their leaders captive, picked their brains, and so enriched his empire. Hitler will burn down nations, torture their leaders to death, and destroy the world.”
― Edith Hahn Beer a

“You must understand that at that time, the concentration camps were prisons where opponents of the Nazi regime were detained. Von Schuschnigg was in a concentration camp; so was Bruno Bettelheim for a time. The inmates were made to work at hard labor and lived in dreadful conditions, but they often came back from these places. Not until the 1940s did the words "concentration camp" come to stand for monstrous cruelty and almost certain death. Nobody even imagined there would one day be a death camp like Auschwitz.”
― Edith Hahn Beer a

“Once, in a village cafeteria, a woman asked how he would like his coffee.
"Serve as in Hell, boiling hot.”
― Margareth Stewart, The war

“The spark of humor has been extinguished in me
I, who so wanted to burst into laughter
How to go on living like this
Without humor, like beasts?”
― Avraham Cytryn, Youth Writing Behind the Walls: Avraham Cytryn's Lodz Notebooks

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
― Winston S. Churchill