Childhood Quote by Michael Herr Download Open image “Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.” — Michael Herr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Vietnam Vietnam war War
There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things,… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
“The Vietnam War was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did… — Mark Anthony Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
“I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?” — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“After a year I felt so plugged in to all the stories and the images and the fear that even the dead started telling… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Search and Destroy, more a gestalt than a tactic, brought up alive and steaming from the Command psyche. Not just a walk and a… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Anyway, you couldn’t use standard methods to date the doom; might as well say that Vietnam was where the Trail of Tears was headed… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . . — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. [...] I knew one… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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