Dead Quote by Philip Gibbs

Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human…

— Marcel Theroux

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but…

— Roger Bannister

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate…

— Frank Lowy

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something…

— Jessica Lynch

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in…

— Melissa Bean

And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets…

— Joan Collins

My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in…

— William C. Oates

“You felt the excitement when we chased them up the hill,” the Mayor's saying. “I saw it. It blazed through your Noise like a fire.…

— Patrick Ness

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

— Mel Brooks

“Night blanketed weary men who fell asleep where they dropped on the trampled prairie grass, while around them other prostrate men from both armies…

— Howard Zinn

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they…

— Joan of Arc