"We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible."

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Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

Hugh Shelton

#World Quotes #Devastation Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.”
“I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more. And I think this gives. If a singer tries to find out what's happening in life, it gives him a better insight on telling the story of the song he is trying to sing.”
“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”
“Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.”
“I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.”
“You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ...”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.112, Clear Press Ltd
“The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.”

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