Schoolboy Rowe/the War Years 1944%e2%80%931945

Famous quotes containing the words schoolboy, war and/or years:

    “I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
    With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “... we Northerners have become too much driven by the idea that in twenty years we will live, not now: because by that time our savings and the accrued interest will make it possible.”
    —Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)