Wwii Homefront Quotes & Sayings

Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm to remind them that light begins and ends with all colors. — Frederic M. Perrin

Bringing Israel and modern Zionism into the subject of the Holocaust is to bring current (i.e. late 20th and early 21st Century) issues into a historical event that occurred on another continent altogether in the early-mid 20th Century. — James Morcan

People think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round. — Cecil Dawkins

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Sometimes in life, we need to be pushed to conquer our fears, challenge our nightmares, realized our dreams and achieved our goals, in order to be the best we can be. - CG Murphy — Courtney Murphy

I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create. — Frank Herbert

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning. Then you are standing face-to-face in seconds that wipe the affable smiles right from your mouths. What did you say? Instantaneously your attachment seems fragile, tenuous, subject to any transgression of your historical self. And though your joined personal histories are supposed to save you from misunderstandings, they usually cause you to understand all too well what is meant. — Claudia Rankine

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for. — Mary Lou Retton

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. — Matthew Henry

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius

Even the help wanted ads in the back of Science or Nature can give you a clue as to what technology is hot. — Deborah Blum

Blackjack wheezed and shuddered - still alive, but badly wounded. Her — Rick Riordan

Sometimes, remembering hurts too much. — Jess Rothenberg

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ... If this continues, I withdraw my subscription. — Victor Hugo

Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, than a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must begin with undeceiving. — Montesquieu