Laura Hillenbrand - Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the ...

Laura Hillenbrand Zitate

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

Laura Hillenbrand

Bewertung: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5,0 Sterne

Deutsche Übersetzung

Louie und Seabiscuit waren beide Kalifornier und beide auf den Sportseiten der 1930er Jahre. Ich war fasziniert. Als ich von seinen Erlebnissen im Zweiten Weltkrieg erfuhr, dachte ich: "Wenn dieser Typ noch lebt, möchte ich ihn treffen."

← Vorheriges Zitat

Nächstes Zitat →

Ähnliche Autoren

Frederick Douglass H. Jackson Brown Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joseph Campbell Jr. Leo Buscaglia Mark Twain Zig Ziglar

Ähnliche Zitate

World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.

Nick Nolte

Obviously, the World War II guys, that's where we, we learned everything from those guys. And then we hopefully, what we learned, we pass down to the newer generation.

Marcus Luttrell

My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

Forrest Bird

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

Douglass North

In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children.

Edward Zwick

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.

Michael Owen

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

James Cromwell

I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.

Wagner Moura

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

Warren Christopher