Band of Brothers (TV series)/Quotes

"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
Grandpa said 'No… but I served in a company of heroes.'"

—Richard Winters, quoting a letter he received from Sergeant Mike Ranney.

"I was no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness; - I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same life; we are nearer than lovers, in a simpler, harder way; I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me."

—Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

—William Shakespeare, Henry V

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