"For the first time I heard shots..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.
More by Winston Churchill
More on Experience
“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”
“The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.”
“I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.”
More on Reality
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.”
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”