World Trade Center Quotes

• Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  New York, Skills, Trying

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• We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

  Hugh Shelton

  World, Devastation, Obvious

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Surfing, Hawaii, World

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• The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Peace, Artist, Greatness

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• I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger purpose than just to provide room for tenants. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace ... beyond the compelling need to make this a monument to world peace, the World Trade Center should, because of its importance, become a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  New York, Mean, Greatness

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• You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

  Colin Powell

  Patriotic, Tragedy, Spirit

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

  Tony Blair

  Our World, Evil, Today

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

  Tony Blair

  Patriotic, Fighting, Our World

  Statement at the Trade Union Conference on the 9/11 Attacks, delivered 11 September 2001

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• When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

  Robert Fisk

  New York, Shadow, World

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

  Martin Filler

  Successful, Cities, Expansion

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• I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.

  Condoleezza Rice

  White, House, World

  "Condoleezza Rice's Speech To The Republican National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2012.

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• As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. ...If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  Ward Churchill

  Patriotism, Towers, World

  "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens" by Ward Churchill, www.kersplebedeb.com. September 12, 2001.

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• The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Years

  Here Is New York (1949)

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• My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

  Katha Pollitt

  Daughter, Block, War

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

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• I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Stupid, Believe, Fall

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  Ted Turner

  New York, Doubt, Mind

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• The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

  L. Neil Smith

  Hate, Lying, World

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• I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Real, Writing

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

  Jack Kingston

  World, Identification, Currents

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• And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

  Allen Klein

  World, Financial, Landmarks

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• Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Emotional, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Powerful, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Uplifting, Morning, New York

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• The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.

  James Buchan

  New York, Suffering, World

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• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  Eliot Spitzer

  President, World, Calm

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