Childhood memories Quote by Andrés Neuman

“We wanted to serve the socialist fatherland,but it turned out we weren't needed.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there…

— Donald Barthelme

You were a soldier?" "Yes, sir." "You barely look old enough to have seen the last battle." "My father was a career army man,…

— Jessica Day George

“I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.”

— Akhil Sharma

“Because if someone had tried to save my father, I would’ve kept them hidden until the soldiers came to drag me from this house.”

— Amie Kaufman

“Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?”

— David Finkel

“Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now…

— Robert Goolrick

“Near his foot was a map of Gettysburg, and he looked down at the ridges and grooves running across the land. It wasn't just…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was my dad, I was his son, and I was in the fight of my life.”

— Phil Knight

“What the hell was all of that about?” She meant the fight. I sighed. “I miss my dad.”

— Tijan

My father believed in armed struggle.

— Hisham Matar