# Quote — Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

> — Mr. Churchill you were given a mission.
>
> — Yes
>
> — I want to have been given your mission. I want your place in world events, the centrality of it. You were born in the cradle of a catapult!
>
> — You are wrong. I found my mission.
>
> — I disagree.
>
> — If you must.
>
> — Tell me: where is my mission? Where are my bunkers and trenches, my goddamn Gallipoli?

- Author: [Dave Eggers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers.md)
- Book: [You Shall Know Our Velocity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#You_Shall_Know_Our_Velocity!_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/mr-churchill-you

## More from this book

> What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/what-did-we-want.md)

> I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/i-was-feeling.md)

> Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. "YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!" he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/you-shall-know-our-velocity/hand-took-a-breath.md)