Camps Quote by George Takei Download Open image “You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.” — George Takei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camps Grew Grew up Internment Internment camps Time Two Young
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't know about the Japanese internment camps until I saw a movie of the week as an adult. I remember going,… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10. — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I remember reading one of those big history texts in elementary school, and in that whole book there was one paragraph that mentioned that… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“One cold night in December 1941 I won a dance contest jitterbugging to “Tuxedo Junction” at the Denver Dance Hall. The next thing I… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. — George Takei Copy Share Image
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“Sharing is an act of trust, for ridicule is an ever-present risk on the Internet today.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
“If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. Like it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“As with the douchebags of the world, calling an asshole an asshole sometimes is exactly what needs to happen.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
“But as Stephen Fry has so eloquently noted, all great atrocities and genocides first begin with marginalizing then dehumanizing a specific group of people,… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“I began to wonder, what accounts for our collective affinity for the apocalypse? What is it about “the end” that makes it always seem… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“If Grumpy Cat could bring herself to actually support something, it should be a no-brainer for mere humans.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
“And anyway, as they will say in the distant future, “Replication is the sincerest form of flattery.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
“I call this phenomenon “hipsterization”—when those who fancy themselves on the cutting edge dismiss the very items they had touted as cool until they… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Cultural icons help people define who they are today because they shaped who they were as children.” — George Takei Copy Share Image
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp… — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't… — Rick Rowley Copy Share Image
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
[10 Things I Hate About You] was the most fun I ever had making a movie. Everyone got along really, really well from day… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image