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"I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country."

Julia Child on War

More quotes about War

  • "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

    Albert Einstein on War

  • "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on War

  • "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

    Albert Einstein on War

  • "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on War

  • "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."

    Winston Churchill on War

More quotes by Julia Child

  • "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time."

  • "Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe."

  • "In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

  • "In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking."

  • "I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything."

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