Childhood Quote by Helmut Kohl

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my…

— George H. W. Bush

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around…

— Felix Rohatyn

The time during bombings was definitely difficult for everyone. My parents, they really protected me from it, and we came through together.

— Ana Ivanovic

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

— Dan Rather

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids usually read…

— Lois Lowry

I remember learning about the Holocaust when I was in kindergarten and being terrified. I think we even watched a graphic video about it…

— Jill Soloway

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop…

— Marjane Satrapi

Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because…

— Joan Collins

I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a terrible period…

— Christine Leunens

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great…

— Harold Pinter

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall,…

— Justin Cronin

I was 10 years old when my father was assassinated in 1968. Then, I had some sense of the sacrifices and hardships required of…

— Martin Luther King III