September Quotes

• This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.

  

  John Doolittle
  • September

• My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Morning
  • Christmas
  • Garden

• Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Together
  • Musician
  • September

• On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Football
  • Player
  • Professional

• We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Summer
  • Welcome
  • Ghost

• September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn’t looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Wanted
  • Coffee
  • Again

• If, for a moment, it seemed that September 11th could be identified with Iraq, the illusion was short-lived.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • September

• Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.

  

  Judy Reyes
  • Innocent
  • Victim
  • Egypt

• September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Lost
  • Being
  • Defense

• Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Political
  • September

• Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.

  

  Ally Carter
  • September
  • Insulted
  • Tower

• 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
  • Guy
  • Winter
  • September

• I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Done
  • President
  • Terrorism

• I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • September
  • Chill

• It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn't stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and her cheeks were pink, and her dark hair was flowing around her face. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that. Sometimes our arms brushed against each other as we walked, and it was like I could feel the touch for minutes after it happened.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Air

• I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • School
  • Feeling
  • Wife

• How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

  

  Eleanor Clark
  • Style
  • Confusion
  • Racing

• [T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • School
  • Feeling
  • Days

• I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Enough
  • Crying
  • Fairyland

• That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.

  

  Mercer Reynolds
  • September
  • Center
  • Switzerland

• ... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Read

• The Republican effort to make the September 11th attack on Benghazi into a scandal is really about one thing and one thing only: Hillary Clinton.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Effort
  • September

• 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
  • World
  • Risk
  • September

• It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Thinking
  • Prayer
  • President

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