Bill Rowen Quotes in Hope and Glory (1987)

Grandfather George: You want to know why they're called Faith, Hope, Grace and Charity?

Bill Rowen: Why?

Grandfather George: Your Grandmother. She named them after the virtues I lack. That's marriage for you!

Teacher: [jabbing at a map of the world, with the British Empire lands in pink] Pink. Pink. Pink. Pink. What are all the pink bits? Rowan.

Bill Rowen: They're ours, Miss.

Teacher: Yes. The British Empire. Arthur... what fraction of the earth's surface is British?

Arthur in Roger's Gang: Don't know, Miss.

Teacher: Anyone? Jennifer Baker?

Jennifer Baker: Two-fifths, Miss.

Teacher: Yes, two-fifths! Ours. That's what this war is all about. Men are fighting and dying to save all the pink bits for you ungrateful little twerps.

[last lines]

Bill Rowen: In all my life nothing ever quite matched the perfect joy of that moment. My school lay in ruins, the river beckoned with the promise of stolen days.