America Quote by Alice Walker

I remember when John Cameron Swayze over the television told me personally that the Russians now had the atomic bomb; then I knew that…

— George A. Romero

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I…

— Linda Hoaglund

The bombs were coming-and so was I.

— Markus Zusak

In my seven years as Secretary, we came within a hair's breadth of war with the Soviet Union on three different occasions! Twenty-four hours…

— Robert McNamara

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close…

— Dolph Lundgren

I was forced to be political because I had bombs falling on me as a child in Tehran.

— Shervin Pishevar

I was a kid during the height of the Cold War. If I did something wrong, my parents just accused me of being a…

— Nikhil Saluja

There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that…

— Jane Smiley

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to…

— Kary Mullis

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

— Marjane Satrapi

When I was 5-years-old, I knew who Khrushchev was.

— Bill Maher