Greg Kinnear Quotes

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

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.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

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

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

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

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

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

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.