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)

    “[Veterans] feel disappointed, not about the 1914-1918 war but about this war. They liked that war, it was a nice war, a real war a regular war, a commenced war and an ended war. It was a war, and veterans like a war to be a war. They do.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Today, almost forty years later, I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.”
    —Albert Speer (1905–1981)