I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.


Celine Buckens

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War...
CELINE BUCKENS
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...
AL PACINO
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good ...
KEN FOLLETT
Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
KURT MASUR
Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history t...
JON MEACHAM
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
WILFRED OWEN
Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription b...
WILFRED OWEN
Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man ...
WILFRED OWEN
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-know...
WILFRED OWEN
Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always...
WILFRED OWEN
My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been sti...
WILFRED OWEN
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the s...
JOHN MCCRAE
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about t...
GEORGE WALD
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the ...
LANE EVANS
I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.
DON RICKLES
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has compleme...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus...
DORIS LESSING
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course...
JOE BACA
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an ar...
HERMAN KAHN
I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any...
EILEEN MEADORS
I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.
DAVID AYER
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much mor...
MONICA CROWLEY
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
FERDINAND FOCH
If the ghost that haunts the towns of Ypres and Arras and Albert is the staturory British Tommy, slo...
LYN MACDONALD
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi...
MARC RAMSEY
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they ...
JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen...
GEORGE PACKER
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlai...
DOUGLAS FEITH
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE WILL
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
KERRY GREENWOOD
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our hist...
STEPHEN AMBROSE
There are diverse opinions around the world. Yes, I even hear my countrymen say that when America wa...
ALFONSO NUNZIANTE
Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know ...
KELSEY GRAMMER
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up...
WILFRED OWEN
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whic...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI
We learned from history that terrorism is a cancer. World War Two started with the burning of synago...
YONA METZGER
Rats, the only creatures that seemed to flourish in the trenches, were quite brave and were often a ...
PAUL T. DEAN
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
STEPHEN KINZER
I think there's a high interest in World War II now. We're losing the veterans. It's important to re...
KATHLEEN BRADFORD
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
DAVE BRUBECK
I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say ...
BOB FELLER
Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I pe...
GEORGE ANTHEIL
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaboratio...
JON MEACHAM
In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to c...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlant...
TERENCE WINTER
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after ...
CLINT EASTWOOD
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened...
DAVID K. E. BRUCE
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f...
RICK ATKINSON
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
GEORGE MCGOVERN
With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, ...
LINDA SUE PARK
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
LESTER B. PEARSON
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we&#...
OWAIN YEOMAN
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a de...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
JEREMY IRVINE
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
VANNA BONTA
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watch...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
It's a very important part of the 20th century and World War II.
LARRY WILCOX
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in Wor...
IVICA DACIC
World War II has continued well after it was 'finished'
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre...
JOHN GOKONGWEI
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER
I was in World War Two at the battle of Okinawa.
HARRY DEAN STANTON
If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the Un...
BOB FELLER
Behold,
A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
B...
WILFRED OWEN
Move him into the sun —
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
WILFRED OWEN
My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!
My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,
My back's...
WILFRED OWEN
My hope is that 'The New World Haggadah' will open a new world for readers who will see our ...
ILAN STAVANS
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190...
ELLIOTT CARTER
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remembe...
PHIL DONAHUE
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edi...
TOM HIDDLESTON
Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.
BRUCE COCKBURN
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survive...
RICHARD BRANSON
...My deepest personal reason for staying in Paris is that whatever I have as a character, good or b...
WILLIAM C. BULLITT
World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to c...
MORTEN TYLDUM
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS
I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, wi...
HAILEE STEINFELD
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very ...
STEPHEN DALDRY
During World War II the top secret “Norden XV” or “Blue Ox” otherwise known the Army Airforc...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SUPPRESED I RISE"
Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that someh...
RUTA SEPETYS
A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next r...
GEORGE ORWELL
That's a first. The Guard can't claim that (level of combat) for World War II or World War I ? the o...
LES MELNYK
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL
Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people i...
ANIK FOURNIER
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the e...
TOM WOLFE
It looks like a bombed-out building from World War II,
BOBBY WELCH
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. Tha...
PATCH ADAMS
I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
The World War I Years: America Becomes a World Power.
AMERICAN LIBRARY
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to Wo...
LISEL MUELLER
When I was a kid, my mum had a lot of Dumas books in the house, and she's from France originally...
TOM REISS
Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reaso...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SEAWATER ONE...."
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western fo...
THOM YORKE
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medic...
AUDREY HEPBURN

More Celine Buckens

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War...
CELINE BUCKENS
Well, I love clothes.
CELINE BUCKENS
I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
CELINE BUCKENS
I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.
CELINE DION
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beau...
CELINE DION
Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I&#...
CELINE DION
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. T...
CELINE DION
The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people r...
CELINE DION
I have become a housewife and there is no better job.
CELINE DION
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you lo...
CELINE DION
Because your the world where I belong.
CELINE DION
I'm everything I am Because You Loved Me.
CELINE DION
It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
CELINE DION
I wish we were all naked all the time. I have always believed it's what's underneath that counts. If...
CELINE DION
We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the c...
CELINE DION
How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy liv...
CELINE DION
There's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable.
CELINE DION
Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not go...
CELINE DION
craps table and a slot machine.
CELINE DION
When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in...
CELINE DION
Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.
CELINE DION
All players need to focus on what was promised four years ago: reform of world trade rules that boos...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
This proposal, ... would allow them to get away with doing next to nothing in return for some very p...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
The talks have moved forward a few inches but the question is who will benefit? Issues of vital impo...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
These talks were meant to deliver for development, ... It's not good enough for the big players to s...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
What looks on the surface like a genuine attempt to move the talks forward is in fact a very clever ...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
[Oxfam, the international aid agency, said in a press release that] renewed deadlock in world trade ...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
Every extra delay reduces the chances of a deal being done that will lift people out of poverty. Pro...
CELINE CHARVERIAT
Every extra delay reduces the chances of a deal being done that will lift people out of poverty, ......
CELINE CHARVERIAT
This gives a lie to the French argument that it uses EU subsidies to support its small farmers,
CELINE CHARVERIAT
I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
CELINE DION
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you l...
CELINE DION
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm fro...
CELINE DION
Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
CELINE DION
On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?
CELINE DION
You know, some people are stealing and they're making a big deal out of it,
CELINE DION
I'm not thinking with my head, I'm talking with my heart.
CELINE DION
The way it was said makes it sound like I'm not singing live at my shows, which is not true. In the ...
CELINE DION
It's All Coming Back to Me Now,
CELINE DION
On her son again: I smell his feet; they have a scent that's a bit like vinegar.
CELINE DION
When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a ...
CELINE DION
Because You Loved Me,
CELINE DION
I would love to make a film, ... I want an Oscar!
CELINE DION
You thought you look smart, but you are merely the stupidest person I’ve ever seen.. You thought y...
CELINE CHEW
You thought you are great, yes you are! The greatest person when it comes to bad mouthing and creati...
CELINE CHEW
Bad friends are like tumors, removed them and you'll be alive and kicking once again!
CELINE CHEW
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend ?100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
CELINE DION
My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
CELINE DION
This thing has really upset me, ... Since that story came out, everyone has been congratulating me, ...
CELINE DION
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that....
CELINE DION
Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.
CELINE DION
I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.
CELINE DION
I'm very comfortable in my skin.
CELINE DION
I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.
CELINE DION
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and m...
CELINE DION
I've never been cool - and I don't care.
CELINE DION
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have ...
CELINE DION
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
CELINE DION
It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.
CELINE DION
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
CELINE DION
When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.
CELINE DION
It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation...
CELINE DION
My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. ...
CELINE DION
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
CELINE DION
It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.
CELINE KIERNAN
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ......
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
Between the penis and the mathematical one . . . there exists nothing. Nothing! It is a vacuum. ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a wo...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's 'y...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
Living, just by itself / what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those ...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers mar...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
I hate being told by strange men in the street to smile, to make them feel better about their boring...
JULIE DEPLY "CELINE"