Kindertransport Quotes

“You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“I didn’t bring you up to speak as if your mouth were filled with sewage.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.
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― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Why won’t you help me?

You have to able to manage on your own.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“I promise.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Remember that we always love and think of you. Always. Mother.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Please tell me the truth about yourself.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Eva: I don't want any tea.

Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“I have hunger.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Stop fretting and eat your Madeira Cake..”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“If it’s God you’re worried about, the Lord Jesus said that we needn’t keep to the old ways anymore. They had their day years ago.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Do not throw me out. Please.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“A town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“Don't even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“What I want is irrelevant. This is your life, Faith.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“I don't want to sew.
How else will the buttons get onto the coat?”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama