Somme Quotes
- In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. — Robert Fisk
- Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate… — Simon Heffer
- Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal… — Paul Fussell
- The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. — George Will
- In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words… — Robert Hughes
- I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders -… — Henry Williamson
- Somme people go through there whole live's trying to be perfectly flawless, which only makes theem un-perfect themselves. Somee people worry about beeing happy when,… — Kyley King