Matt Busby Quotes

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

Wars break things; they break stories.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.