Famous quotes containing the words war i, world and/or war:
“... But if you shrink from being scared,
What would you say to war if it should come?
Thats what for reasons I should like to know
If you can comfort me by any answer.
Oh, but wars not for children its for men.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“We placed the wreaths upon the splended granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above usloving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woeyes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!”
—Victoria (18191901)
“At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)