Away Quote by Grace Dent Download Open image “During the second world war, my grandad was away for the best part of six years.” — Grace Dent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Away Best Second Second world war War World World war
My dad served in World War II and died on active duty after the war. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war. — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
A few years after my father's death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for 'better prospects' in 1951. Those four years were… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders… — Lata Mangeshkar Copy Share Image
My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life. My mother… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The most important and unregrettable time of my life was the 12 years I spent in the Army. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Give me an impromptu 50-person guest list, a fold-out emergency trestle table and a pack of frozen vol-au-vent cases and, darlings, I will give… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I skip breakfast a lot - often, it's just a litre of coffee with oat milk - and I eat lots of protein at… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Once, bit-fetching was the job mainly of children. In the 1970s, if I sat too long looking bored, I'd be dispatched to the shop… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I've realised that, from your mid-40s, everything you eat and drink shows in your face. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
The moment you become sober, you feel 100% better. Then you have to stop yourself being evangelical because you feel like you've found religion. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Everybody you meet, when you're a restaurant critic, tells you they'd love to be your dinner companion. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
My rule of thumb with being in the closet is, as long as you're not spending Sundays thumping a bible about Sodom, or weekdays… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Sometimes you only realise how far you've travelled when you turn around and see the distance behind. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl I always enjoyed the roast potatoes and the vegetables at Sunday dinner more than the meat. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
What 'Transparent' actually is if you give it a chance is a compelling, intoxicating look at family, siblings, secrets, divorce, being Jewish, mid-life anguish… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure. — John Guare Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We all have time away from football to get our head down. At the same time it is a very busy schedule. — Reece James Copy Share Image
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image