Quotes About Columbine

#1. To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Marilyn Manson

#2. A dramatic public display, Kay. The dam began to crumble with Columbine. It's not new, just the classification is. People have become addicted to attention, to fame. Profoundly disturbed individuals will kill and die for it.

Patricia Cornwell

#3. I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music' ... I make fight music, for high school kids.

Eminem

#4. A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

Desiderius Erasmus

#5. When I fell out the window, I knew somebody would catch me. That's what I need to tell you: that I knew the loving world was there all the time. -Patrick Ireland of the Columbine massacre

Dave Cullen

#6. This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

Beth Nimmo

#7. Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,

James Risen

#8. There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.

Wes Craven

#9. These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.

Rachel Scott

#10. I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.

Rachel Scott

#11. We worked under a lot of pressure ... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.

Lloyd Bridges

#12. One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.

Savannah Guthrie

#13. I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

Foster Friess

#14. I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.

Dan Gilroy

#15. They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Charles Dickens

#16. I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

John Robinson

#17. Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

Barack Obama

#18. There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.

Marilyn Manson

#19. The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#20. There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other.

Will Bly

#21. He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Joe Hill

#22. Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

John Robinson

#23. True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#24. Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

Rachel Scott

#25. The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

Gus Van Sant

#26. You know, it gets frustrating, because you know in your heart where you were and what you said, and then people doubt you. And that's what bothers me the most. -Valeen Schnurr of the Columbine massacre

Dave Cullen

#27. You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

Van Jones

#28. Turn on the news and see how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single 'victim' of Columbine?

Morgan Freeman

#29. The columbine and iris bowed down to make way for bolder sprays of red valerian, and a mingled profusion of clustered Canterbury bells and sweet william, pale blues and pinks intertwined, danced at the feet of more stately spears of deep-purple foxglove and monkshood.

Susanna Kearsley

#30. Today, music is visual.

Archie Shepp

#31. I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

Michael Moore