Army Quote by Roma Downey

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was…

— Steven Wright

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around…

— Alice Temperley

On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an amazing thirty-three…

— Ted Nugent

I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the…

— Anonymous

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth,…

— Randall Jarrell

I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren’t…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen…

— Michael Morpurgo

Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I…

— Maurice Sendak

When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms…

— Phillip Adams

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

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special…

— Delta Burke

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the…

— Anne Waldman