Quotes About The Bombing Of Hiroshima

#1. I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

Jonathan Kozol

#2. When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Johnny ate encyclopedias like any other kid might eat Red Hots or Lemonheads.

Robert McCammon

#5. I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.

Tony Shalhoub

#6. He said nothing. It seemed the smartest thing to say.

Neil Gaiman

#7. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

John Hersey

#8. I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

Jeremy London

#9. I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Noam Chomsky

#10. We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Glenn Ligon

#12. He was the kind of guy who had a unique facial expression dedicated to thinking.

Tommy Wallach

#13. Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

Bob Goff