In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. Jack Steinberger Read Quote
I’m so easily inspired – if I like someone in the street’s clothing, I always say ‘You look amazing.’ Lady Amelia Windsor Read Quote
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who’d just bought two of my books for pounds 500. Emma Tennant Read Quote
Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again. Gareth Southgate Read Quote
In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper’s bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father’s life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born. Michael Ashcroft Read Quote