Blitz Quote by Harold Pinter

My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her…

— Chris Cleave

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

— Bernhard Langer

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

— Mel Brooks

I was born and raised in war.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What happened to…

— Vanessa Redgrave

My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.

— Helmut Kohl

When the Second World War started, I was only five but I still remember... Being a witness... I wanted people to remember what happened…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as…

— Diet Eman

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were…

— Cynthia Ozick

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

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us…

— Mark Burnett