Hiroshima Quotes
Collection of top 42 famous quotes about Hiroshima
Hiroshima Quotes & Sayings
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Beads of blood defied gravity, hanging in the air like drops of dew caught in a web.
— Stephen Lloyd Jones
A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, "Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?
— Jonathan Glover
If you can't face Hiroshima in the theatre, you'll eventually end up in Hiroshima itself
— Edward Bond
Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
— William D. Leahy
Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.
— Charles B. Rangel
You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
— Wilfred Burchett
A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
— James Lee Burke
Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar.
— Masuji Ibuse
Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.
— Edward Teller
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.
— David T. Dellinger
The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
— Harry S. Truman
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.
— Sylvester Stallone
I'm the Hiroshima of love.
— Sylvester Stallone
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
— Peter Landesman
I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.
— Nazim Hikmet
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.
— John Hersey
His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin.
— Neil Gaiman
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
— Edward Bond
I do have faith in humanity but I don't have faith in humans.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras
— Marguerite Duras
A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.
— Laura Hillenbrand
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
— Wilfred Burchett
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
— John Lewis Gaddis
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?
— Lesley Stahl
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
— Albert Einstein
When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".
— Dave Barry
Every positive value has its price in negative terms ... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
— Pablo Picasso
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.
— Marianne Williamson