Churchill Attlee Quotes & Sayings

The four places I've called home in my life have been Lahore, London, New York and California. And I have a very strong tie to each one of those four places. — Mohsin Hamid

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill. — Clement Attlee

The glory of God always comes at the sacrifice of self. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left. — Mark Skousen

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point. — Binyavanga Wainaina

So, like the knights of old, I suited up in my trusty intern armor - brownish-green suit, sensible cap-toed oxfords, white button-down, and omnipresent LensCrafters glasses. If I wasn't able to shoot her, I could probably bore her to death. — Shane Kuhn

Flares and small incendiary bombs began to fall as the car approached Kreuzberg. The neighborhood was a typical target for the RAF's current strategy of killing as many civilian factory workers as possible. With staggering hypocrisy Churchill and Attlee were claiming they attacked only military targets, and civilian casualties were a regrettable side effect. Berliners knew better. — Ken Follett

A sheep in sheep's clothing. [on Clement Attlee] — Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston S. Churchill

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary. — Vanessa Paradis

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. — Noah Feldman

One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me. — Bee Wilson