March 11 Quotes

#1. There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#2. I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

John Prescott

#3. Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Yoshihiko Noda

#4. We are not in this world to live safely. We are here to fall in love and break our hearts.

Antoinette May

#5. Hope is like the Sun. When it's behind the clouds, it's not gone. You just have to find it!
- Matthew, Age 11, Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey, March 21

R.J. Palacio

#6. In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

John Mica

#7. I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

Giovanna Cau

#8. ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388

And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be so lavish as to ruin masterpieces for yourself. There are not enough of them!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

Oscar Wilde

#10. March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

Jose Maria Aznar

#11. Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be.

Charles De Lint

#12. On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

Stephen Cohen