Hundred Years War/beginning of The War - 1337-1360

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or beginning:

    “What will our children remember of us, ten, fifteen years from now? The mobile we bought or didn’t buy? Or the tone in our voices, the look in our eyes, the enthusiasm for life—and for them—that we felt? They, and we, will remember the spirit of things, not the letter. Those memories will go so deep that no one could measure it, capture it, bronze it, or put it in a scrapbook.”
    —Sonia Taitz (20th century)

    “No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “As the proverb says, “a good beginning is half the business” and “to have begun well” is praised by all.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)