Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II

Famous quotes containing the words bombing, world and/or war:

    “Did all of us feel interested in bombing buildings only when the men we slept with were urging us on?”
    —Jane Alpert (b. 1947)

    “It is of the nobility of man’s soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours?”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

    “Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)