September Quotes - Page 25

• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Powerful, September 11

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• Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else.

  Shelby Foote

  Years, Weather, Air

  Shelby Foote (2011). “Follow Me Down: A Novel”, p.3, Vintage

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• The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, America, People

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.958, Government Printing Office

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• The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th,
  The New World Order was born on September 11.

  Immortal Technique

  Rap, Order, Hip Hop

  Song: The Cause Of Death

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• These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, September 11

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.

  George W. Bush

  Good Night, America, Our World

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.

  Pope John Paul II

  Caring, Effort, September 11

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• Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  September 11, Together, Remember

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• Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, September 11, Secret

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

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• Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

  John Ashcroft

  Risk, September 11, World

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• In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day. But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we’ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Memories, September 11

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• I heard a bird sing
  In the dark of December
  A magical thing
  And sweet to remember.
  'We are nearer to Spring
  Than we were in September,'
  I heard a bird sing
  In the dark of December.

  Oliver Herford

  Sweet, Spring, Dark

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• Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

  Alan Jackson

  World

  Song: Where Were You, Album: Drive, 2002

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• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  Tony Blair

  New York, America, Challenges

  "Attacks Remembered: In quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. September 11, 2002.

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• September is the other January.

  Gretchen Rubin

  January

  Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.22, Harmony

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• There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

  Linda Blair

  People, September 11, Golden Retrievers

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• I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

  Marianne Williamson

  Grief, Heart, Loss

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• The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

  Joe Biden

  September 11th, Stills, American Society

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• We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

  Jane D. Hull

  September 11, Events, Our Actions

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• So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Taught Us, September 11

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• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Winter, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Gore Vidal

  Debtors, United States, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

  Aberjhani

  Angel, Eagles, Wings

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• Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Teacher, My Birthday, Would Be

  "How to be a Good Teacher". Book by Rupal Jain, p. 138, 2013.

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