Stephen E. Ambrose > Quotes

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose

“There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose

“plan your work and work your plan"

"where there is a will, there is a way”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938

“Todd says that the doctor "was rather horrified because we passed a German who had had his head shot off, but his arms and legs were still waving about and strange noises were coming out of him, and i thought even the doctor was a bit turned over by that.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose

“The German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is going to be".”
― Stephen E. Ambrose