Chernobyl Quotes: top 41 famous quotes about Chernobyl

Chernobyl Quotes & Sayings

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In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986. — Michio Kaku

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing. — Abdus Salam

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic. — Svetlana Alexievich

Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history? — Anders Breivik

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. — Wladimir Klitschko

Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones. — Steven Magee

And I dare say most people don't think too deeply on sex, beyond what they've been taught through the media and society. — Abigail Barnette

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. — Willa Cather

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes! — Jimmy Carr

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I could be myself. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. — Hunter Hayes

We don't play well with others. — Ella Frank

Play as often as you can. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly. — Abdus Salam

Jump right in, or wade in slowly.
Advantage to one, it's over quickly.
Advantage to the other, it isn't. — Maira Kalman

Chernobyl haunts us with the reminder that all of man's ambitions are ephemeral. Our grandest designs and sturdiest monuments, — Josh Gates

I'm a product of my time. I'm not a criminal. — Svetlana Alexievich

Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind. — Svetlana Alexievich

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. — Peace Pilgrim

People ask me: "Why don't you take photos in color? In color!" But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there. — Svetlana Alexievich

Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning. — Nicola Yoon

Maybe the truth can't be buried. Or maybe it can't stay buried. Maybe the very nature of truth is that it will ultimately reveal itself. — Delia Ephron

Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air. — Svetlana Alexievich

At first we were all turned into animals. The very word "Chernobyl" is like a signal. Everyone turns their head to look at you. He's from there! That — Svetlana Alexievich

When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson. — Rutina Wesley

Is there anything more frightening than people? — Svetlana Alexievich

The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father. — Svetlana Alexievich

That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit. — Joe Hill

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when. — Paul Gascoigne

For all of us who lived in Paris; we will never forget it because Paris is a moveable feast — Ernest Hemingway,

To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper. — Yakov Smirnoff

Ten years after the Chernobyl accident, and am I the only one that's disappointed? Still no superheros. — Jimmy Carr

Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to. — Chris Guillebeau

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing. — Kurt Vonnegut

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.' — George Smoot

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS. — Niki De St. Phalle

This is what they mean by 'ghost town', she thought. It truly feels like a place frozen in time — Jeremy Robinson

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. — Indra Devi

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process. — Svetlana Alexievich

I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father — Svetlana Alexievich

(More radioactive material fell on Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a result of Chernobyl than from Three Mile Island.) — William Tucker