"How still the morning of the hallow'd day!……" — James Grahame
"How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song."
More D Day Quotes
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from… — Barbara Kingsolver
- The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none… — Mac Thornberry
- There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops,… — Tom Brokaw
- Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on… — Nancy Gibbs
- The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on… — Carlo D'Este
- The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a… — Antony Beevor
- Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us… — George S. Patton
- I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we… — Hannah Simone
- D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point… — Stephen Ambrose
- The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to… — Richard Dawson
- What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including… — Ben Macintyre
- I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I… — Eddie Izzard