Awakening Quote by Sam Hamill

I was in World War Two at the battle of Okinawa.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in…

— Tamlyn Tomita

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

— Johnny Colt

I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old,…

— George H. W. Bush

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in…

— Patty Jenkins

I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You…

— Frances Arnold

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was basically a rebel without a cause. And I got kicked out by my parents and ended up homeless.

— Bez

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

— Novak Djokovic

I'd love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel at school, but sadly I wasn't.

— Emily Blunt

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to do, and…

— Fala Chen