Postwar Britain Quotes

#1. Well, you know ... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop.

Tim Curry

#2. He had the face of an angel, but he f**ked like a devil.

Lilly Hale

#3. The prophetic spirit is transferable and can be imparted.

John Eckhardt

#4. For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.

Sheldon Adelson

#5. I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Amartya Sen

#6. In Greece, British troops entered after the Nazis had withdrawn. They imposed a corrupt regime that evoked renewed resistance, and Britain, in its postwar decline, was unable to maintain control. In 1947, the United States moved in, supporting a murderous war that resulted in about 160,000 deaths.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson

Ashfaq Ahmed

#8. Humans, not places, make memories.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#9. Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

Dennis Miller

#10. My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Uzo Aduba

#11. He drinks, even though drinking always makes him remember rather than forget.

David Levithan

#12. To have a vision of the cosmic plan, in which every form of life depends on directed movements which have effects beyond their conscious aim, is to understand the child's work and be able to guide it better.

Maria Montessori

#13. The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

Bertolt Brecht

#14. In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica - seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.

Emil Cioran