Quotes About The Blitz In London

#1. Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

Dan Scanlon

#2. Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights bloom like a sea of candles. Even this rain will never put them all out.

John Owen Theobald

#3. For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.

Ruth Ozeki

#4. I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

Harold Pinter

#5. I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#6. England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

Alexander Cockburn

#7. I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

Billy Graham

#8. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Bernie Siegel

#9. Bravery is not the absence of fear

Thabiso Monkoe

#10. These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

Elizabeth Lesser

#12. All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived.

Linda Lee Cadwell

#13. There were a lot of things I was afraid of - but not guys like him.

Anonymous

#14. Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.

Linda Grant

#15. Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

Stella Young

#16. There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at something.

Marie Brennan

#17. No one thanks you for showing them the light.

Michael R. Fletcher

#18. Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Claire Danes

#19. Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

Bernie Sanders

#20. Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall.

John Owen Theobald

#21. The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

Peter Heather