World war i quotes

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◆ In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

- John McCrae100

◆ Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?

- Wilfred Owen99

◆ It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

- Julius Streicher99

◆ During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

- Georg Solti99

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

- Daniel Yergin99

◆ My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

- Douglass North99

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

- Lester B Pearson99

◆ In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.

- Ryszard Kapuscinski99

◆ After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

- C L R James99

◆ The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

- Whittaker Chambers99

◆ The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

- Emily Greene Balch99

◆ You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

- James Cagney99

◆ Now rather thank I God there is no risk Of gravers scoring it with florid screed. Let my inscription be this soldier's disc. Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed. But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day, Until the name grow blurred and fade away.

- Wilfred Owen99

◆ Was it for this the clay grew tall?

- Wilfred Owen99

◆ World War I, that tiresome European engagement that threatened to close down French couture.

- Caroline Seebohm99