Children Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.”

— Courtney M. Privett

“Now, during our catastrophically idiotic war in Vietnam, the music kept getting better and better and better. We lost that war, by the way.…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the…

— William L. Shirer

“I said we aren’t here to fucking like Vietnamese things, we’re here to kill or be killed by them, and telling me to wander…

— David James Duncan

“The struggle is against a nation that will always spit in its grandchildren's faces for immediate profit. As Vizenor would say, ‘Their Mother Earth…

— Jim Harrison

“Visions of a pitched battle in the docks flashed through my mind. Innocent bystanders torn apart by gunfire and explosions. Children wailing and parents,…

— G.R. Matthews

“In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child’s imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

— Michael Herr

“No matter which country you are in, on one side there are beautiful people who dream beautiful dreams, and on the other side there…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when…

— Ed Kugler

“Parents kill more dreams than anybody.”

— Spike Lee

“When I first saw the sand, I thought it was beautiful. Like maybe it'd be fun to just roll around in and make sand…

— Victoria Scott