War Begins

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or begins:

    “The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
    The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
    The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
    I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
    Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
    Its echo in my heart.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
    —Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)