51 Bombing Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction. H. R. McMaster

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On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France. Heinrich Boll

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. Ian Mcewan

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The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it. Jimmie Walker

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The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next. John Hersey

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

Old Made Older Hundred Books Once Slightly Percent Ten Classroom More Ten Years Had Almost Check Prior Quarter Were Hiroshima Been Years Than Six Either Published Bombing

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Mark McKinnon

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I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London. Martin Evans

Day Mother First London Born Had Come House Bedroom Escape Front Where January Grandparents Near Bombing

The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was. Mary Jo White

Worse Could Obviously Trade Been Than Frightening Center Much Bombing

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.' Mick Cornett

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No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. Muqtada al Sadr

War Terrorism Rights People Speak Savior Prohibited Torture Weapons Kinds Invading Lead No-One Come Armies Make Occupation Different Them Then Ignite Displacement Conquer Lethal Suffer Bombing Right Defender

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers who carried out the marathon bombing, was a non-practicing Muslim who only became an Islamist militant once his dreams of becoming an Olympic boxer faded. At the time of the attack, he was unemployed. Peter Bergen

I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas. Raymond Kelly

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Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot. Richard Engel

You Will Looking Once Syria Lot Targets Bombing Start

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. Robert D. Kaplan

War Face Cold Cold War Despite Nixon Russians Kissinger Fact Reaction Were Impressed American Chinese Public Us Reasons Bombing

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that. Stanley Hauerwas

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. Timothy Noah

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Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage. Tom Brokaw

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield. William T. Vollmann

War Veterans Will Fears Become Worry Everywhere Battlefield Soon Hijacking Taliban Return Islamic Ready Unemployed American Afghanistan Afghans Dish Fanaticism Which Planes Even Eager Bombing Necessarily

I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East. Ziad Doueiri

Man Car Finished Leader September East Administration About Weeks Wrote Very Sells American Middle Middle East After American Film Script Used Who Film Now Based Bombing Two Two Weeks

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them. Zubin Mehta

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One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime. Emily Thornberry

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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

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