Top 26 Quotes About Gallipoli
#1. Every drop of blood that falls in Tibet or Cambodia or Gallipoli or Iraq lands upon our shoes and spatters the hem of our best suit.
Mark Collins
#2. I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.
Deborah Kara Unger
#3. Promoting a contemporary Australian novel is like landing at Gallipoli. You have to dig in and try to take some ground.
Russell Guy
#4. In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.
Anne Perry
#5. My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.
Peter Jackson
#6. If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.
Kerry Greenwood
#7. 'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.
Michael Winter
#8. By the end of that first day, the advance landing forces at Gallipoli had already suffered nearly four thousand casualties, or considerably more than the total number of men Lawrence had projected would be needed to secure Alexandretta.
Scott Anderson
#9. I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.
Kerry Greenwood
#10. lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before
L.M. Montgomery
#11. No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
Saul David
#12. Of the many million pairs of grieving parents, we will never know how many felt that their sons had died for something noble, and how many felt what one British couple expressed in the epitaph they placed on their son's tombstone at Gallipoli: 'What harm did he do Thee, O Lord?
Adam Hochschild
#13. The one possibility that Sanders tended to discount entirely was a landing at Gallipoli's southern tip, simply because the most basic rules of military logic - even mere common sense - argued against it.
Scott Anderson
#14. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Charles Darwin
#15. The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
Alberto Giacometti
#16. Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you're going to have to mow that side too.
Joyce Meyer
#17. If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
#18. When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
Martin Heinrich
#19. I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
Garry Marshall
#20. Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live.
Billy Graham
#21. Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
Eminem
#22. The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
Frank Scoblete
#23. My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.
Paul Walker
#24. At first, right at the outset, yes, I did feel an urge, and I lapsed into great anxiety. I kept thinking all the time of how I was going to live; I wanted to test my fate, felt anxious particularly at certain moments.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.
Nelson Mandela
