Top 1200 September 11 Quotes & Sayings

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

I couldn't follow the events of September 11 because I was proofreading a novel I'd just completed - on Islam and its quarrel with the West - that I'd promised, six months earlier, to deliver to my editor on September 12, 2001.

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.

The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful - and unsuccessful - in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

These terrible terrorism acts occur because of political situations and injustice in various parts of the world. The Middle East is heavy with injustice. After September 11,George W.Bush announced that he had always had a vision of a Palestinian state. Why didn't he tell us that before September 11, when it would have been a bit more impressive?

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

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

Before September 11, we were fighting terrorism in our southwestern Philippines, and it was a lonely fight. However, we were able to contain it now in one island in that part of the Philippines. But after September 11, and after the creation of the global coalition against terrorism, now we have allies, and I believe now it will easier with allies.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

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.

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system would be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in august and September in 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were in the United States expired visas.

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States. Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2010.

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

It wouldn't quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

None of the ways people were talking about September 11 felt right to me. I don't buy into the way George W. Bush talks about it. I don't buy into the way the 9/11 commission talks about it. It isn't that I don't believe them. It's just that they're not the tellings for me.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

Let me close as I did in Gander on September 11, 2002 when I went to that community to thank the people of Gander and the people of Canada for the overwhelming support and help that was given to us in the wake of those attacks on September 11, 2001.

September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9/11, there was terrorism.

It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a party? This record is all over the world, constantly overthrowing governments, invading, forcing people to follow what we call democracy, as in the cases I mentioned. As I say, if every charge is accurate, it's a joke, and I'm sure half the world is collapsing in laughter about this, because people outside the United States know it. You don't have to tell people in Chile about the first 9/11.

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.