Bits Quote by Joan Collins

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 in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.

— David Jason

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at…

— Tammy Duckworth

During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the…

— Steven Berkoff

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

My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and…

— Suzanne Collins

When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about…

— George A. Romero

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 we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square.…

— Philip Gibbs

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

— Mia Maestro

I flew from Zurich to L.A. on 9/11. I was in the air when it happened. I was asleep when someone woke me up…

— Jack Savoretti

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

— Yoko Ono