Kate Adie Quotes

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

I had no desire to go to Iraq. I never wanted to go to Mosul. I'm not a war correspondent. No part of me thrives on the adrenaline or anything like that.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

You know, I had gone to war.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.