Father Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

My parents created their own war.

— Sean Wilsey

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents…

— Doris Lessing

Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Growing up, I had military members in my family.

— Brad Marchand

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling,…

— Patti Smith

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my…

— Homer Hickam

War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as…

— Sebastian Junger

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were…

— Viv Albertine

Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed…

— Adam Beach

I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer,…

— Herb Kelleher

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

— Michael Winter

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko