September Quotes - Page 19

• When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.

  Harold Camping

  Ends, Saved

  Harold Camping (1992). “1994?”, Vantage Pr

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• I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.

  Bobby Vinton

  Summer, Goodbye, Lonely

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• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  Vernon Jordan

  September 11, Tragedy, Terrible

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• I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
  A point outside the glittering current;
  My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
  At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
  My mind moves in more than one place,
  In a country half-land, half-water.
  I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
  The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
  The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
  What I love is near at hand,
  Always, in earth and air.

  Theodore Roethke

  Country, Moving, Eye

  Theodore Roethke, “The Far Field”

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Summer, Clouds, Wind

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Hurrahing In Harvest”

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• Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

  Sherman Alexie

  Country, Xenophobia, Hate

  "Sherman Alexie: Up All Night". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.

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• But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, September 11, Generations

  "Extended Interview: Walter Isaacson". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 28, 2002.

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• I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on
  the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

  Duke of Wellington

  Loss, Gains, Should

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1837). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.404

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Heart, White, Onions

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

  Nick Rahall

  Pain, War, September 11

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• If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

  Bono

  Islands, Sea, Taught Us

  "The lobbyist rock star", www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?

  George Washington

  Country, Office, Support

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• The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

  Howard Berman

  Real, Issues, Atmosphere

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• The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

  Karen Armstrong

  September 11, Islam, World

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• I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Would Be, World, October

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.105, e-artnow

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• From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

  George Carey

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Reality, Impact, House

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• On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.

  William Bligh

  Night, Fire, Glasses

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.13

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• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  Bob Taft

  Faith, Focus, September 11

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• He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.

  Hilary Mantel

  Responsibility, August, Law

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• In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, September 11, Events

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited... and for me it was between the two buildings going down... I had to do it, otherwise they'd win.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Winning, Two

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• After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.

  Jeffrey O. Henley

  Father, Kids, Boys

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