Ground Zero Quotes

• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  Ralph Peters

  Zero, Islamic, Extravagant

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

  Richard Curtis

  Zero, Publishers, Presses

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• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Carl Paladino

  Zero, Memories, War

  "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Memories, Grief

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• And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Zero, Moving

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• For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

  Michelle Williams

  Zero, Real, Kitchen

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• Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.

  Mark Zandi

  Country, Zero, Vegas

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• People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, People, Religion

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 09, 2010.

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• If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

  Eleanor Clift

  Strong, Zero, War

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• When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

  Leif Garrett

  Zero, Kids, Houston

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• While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

  Amy Waldman

  New York, Zero, People

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• If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

  Phil Bredesen

  Zero, War, Tennessee

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• Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Silly, Heart

  "Today Show Highlights Sarah Palin's 'Refudiate,' Skipped Biden Gaffe". "Today Show" with Peter Alexander, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2010.

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• I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

  Eddie Glaude

  Zero, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  Nancy Meyers

  Zero, Team, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

  David Shuster

  Zero, People, Towers

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• I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

  Lauren Slater

  Zero, Lasts, Return

  Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the son's new revelation of his poverty of heart that propelled him back into his Father's arms. Sometimes we use the very blessings that God gives us to finance our journey away from the centrality of Christ. It's very important that we return back to ground zero, to the ultimate eternal goal of abiding with the Father's in intimate communion. (pg. 243)

  Tommy Tenney

  Zero, Father, Heart

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• More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Zero, Past, Rejection

  Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.157, MIT Press

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• It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.

  Charles Sumner

  Zero, Destiny, Humanity

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• The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Zero, Book, Heart

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• There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

  Newt Gingrich

  New York, Zero, Long

  "The Proposed New York Mosque and the Constitution" by Peter Ferrara, www.foxnews.com. August 04, 2010.

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• Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, Pain, Real

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2010

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• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Zero, Towers, Want

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.

  John Shelby Spong

  Zero, Real, Mean

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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