Born Quote by Jeremy Northam

I was a happy child, just 9 years old, and I knew nothing about war.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

— Anonymous

I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You…

— Clive Cussler

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 realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience.…

— Linda Grant

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

— Karl Lagerfeld

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody…

— Tom Hanks

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

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

— Dan Rather

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

— Elie Wiesel

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing…

— Chris Abani

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