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“When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Eventually, a Soviet general sat down in the empty seat next to Howley. Rank-conscious, the Russian visibly shuddered when he realized he was sitting next to someone of much lower position. 'I see you're a colonel,' he said through an interpreter. Howley looked up from his plate and grumbled, 'I see you're a general. Here, have some salami.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten days, about 130,000 women were raped---”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin---about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of World War II. Of the 125,000 of Berlin's civilians who died in the Russian attack, 6,400 were suicides;”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The president didn't ask me any questions. But I'm glad he didn't, because I was so shocked watching him that I don't think I could have made a sesible reply.' He turned to look Byrnes squarely in the eye. 'We've been talking to a dying man.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.'
'What agreement?'
'The Berlin Agreement,”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“As the concert goers left the hall, the music of the end of the world still ringing in their ears, they filed out past children dressed in their Hitler Youth uniforms who had been assigned to helpfully hold out baskets filled with cyanide capsules for the crowd.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a Salvation Army uniform--they would start screaming hysterically.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.”
― Laura Miller, quote from My Butterfly
“When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn’t think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.”
― Debbie Macomber, quote from The Inn at Rose Harbor
“The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.”
― Ken Robinson, quote from The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“Over the course of nine weeks, she reported, “weight loss, fat loss, and percent weight loss as fat appeared to be inversely related to the level of carbohydrate in the diets”—in other words, the fewer carbohydrates and the more fat in the diet, the greater the weight loss and the greater the fat loss.”
― quote from Good Calories, Bad Calories
“Deep has to go to his world, where he has friends and books and girls with eyes to date, and she will be alone with only her dad. She has to let go, she decides.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from Hold My Hand
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