138 quotes found
“Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.”
“Go to the internet and go to the FBI website and go to their international list of top ten terrorists. You will see Bin Laden there, bring his name up and his picture. Amazingly, all the charges: t...”
“My brother was on his wayto a dental appointmentwhen the second plane hitfour stories below the officewhere he worked. Hes neversaid anything about the guywho took football bets, howhe liked to wat...”
“In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology”
“Because I was there that day, and so were you.”
“Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.”
“Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back down”
“And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the sl...”
“It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.”
“Yes, angels exist. Many people say that a loving God would never allow 9/11 to happen, or a really bad car crash, or starvation. Yet they neglect the fact that there were survivors of 9/11, the car...”
“U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nations continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its r...”
“Sami and I had exactly one day together in the old world. On Tuesday the jihadists came to our front door and knocked down our buildings. Our new world was hijacked planes, anthrax, and Afghanistan...”
“For the first time in a decade I felt a voice rising from deep inside my soul. It cried out what will you be today? and I heard relentless booming from the rafters inside an old gym as Sami and a g...”
“It feels like last week, but in fact were now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud ... and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan today who w...”
“Im sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotelbut he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isnt a part-time job, its not about being n...”
“Im clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.”
“Itd be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. Its really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but if we forget that how ...”
“In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.”
“The last two days Ive been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on wooden boats, traversing currents into a different century. Its late a...”
“I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. Theyll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.”
