Quotes About September 14

#1. How to live a Dream
by P.C.M. Hermans
September 14, 2016

Petra Hermans

#2. Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Barbara Lee

#3. The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958)

Bernard Malamud

#4. The enemy is not you, it is someone you feared
to overcome.
Petra Hermans
September 14, 2016

Petra Hermans

#5. But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean.

Sherri Gaillard

#6. A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

George Eliot

#7. It is one thing when the culture doesn't "get" adoption. What else could one expect when all of life is seen as the quest of "selfish genes" for survival? It is one thing when the culture doesn't "get" adoption and so speaks of buying a cat as "adopting" a pet.

Russell D. Moore

#8. 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

#9. Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props.

Mary Lambert

#10. Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

Dalai Lama

#11. There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Herman Melville