Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • September
  • Images
  • Wave

• Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Spanish

• September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Friends
  • Military
  • September

• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
  • Stress
  • September

• Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Friends
  • Military
  • September

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • May
  • Day

• The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Doubt
  • September

• Message on the Golden Record of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched into space 5 September 1977, as quoted at 'Howdy, Strangers' at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory News (19 August 2002)

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Space
  • September
  • August

• Dream that the lips once breathlessMight quicken if they would;Say that the soul is deathless;Dream that the gods are good;Say March may wed September,And time divorce regret;But not that you remember,And not that I forget.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• Stacy Schiff. 'The Witches of Salem: Diabolical doings in a Puritan village', The New Yorker, September 7, 2015, pp. 46-55.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • September

• Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • Law
  • Appreciation
  • September

• I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Mind
  • September

• The whole world has changed after September 11th.

  

  Jerry Bruckheimer
  • World
  • September

• Many people of my generation grew up in developed countries thinking that the world was divided into two parts and that there was a wall round the developed world. They thought that poor people had no relevance to us. What happened on September 11 was that anybody who thought there was a wall now knows that there is no wall.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Support
  • September

• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Law
  • Stop
  • September

• I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Broken
  • Connection

• I honestly have really deep reservations about releasing everything you ever did. Every time somebody farted in the studio, now it's out there.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Time
  • Deep

• In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.

  

  James Fenton
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Training

• Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch

  

  Jan Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Light

• My favourite thing to wear is a saree.

  

  Amy Jackson

• September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • September
  • Longing
  • Drank