Every night Quote by Steven Berkoff

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going…

— Stephen Hawking

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

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

I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs…

— Robert Powell

My parents were still living with my grandparents, on my dad's side, when I was born, but when I was three, we moved to…

— Paul Young

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 lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in the part…

— Maureen Lipman

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where…

— Heinrich Boll

I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.

— Bill Bailey

As a kid, my family used to go to a holiday camp in either Clacton-on-Sea or the Isle of Sheppey, on the other side…

— David Essex

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

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

— Yoko Ono