“We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.” MaySaidSticksBottomBeesPacksRifles Book:Private Peaceful Source: Private Peaceful
“My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.” ThinkingSaidMatterFeelingsMarriedBrownMutual Author:Michael Morpurgo
“I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!” KnowsMenDoeSaidDifferentWarReasonFightingSpeakLanguageCrazyOne DayMy FriendsMadReason WhyColourOne ManSaneUniformsDifferent LanguagesDifferent Colours Book:War Horse Source: War Horse
“He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.” WaySaidEyeKnowingEarsBest WaySchooling Book:Farm Boy Source: Farm Boy
