11th Hour Quotes:

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: People, President, Hoaxes, 11th Hour, Climate Change Deniers

The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

- Kenny Ausubel

source: "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

topic: Weapons, Environment, Economic, 11th Hour, Economic Globalization

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

- John McCrae

source: John McCrae (2015). “In Flanders Fields and Other Poems”, p.20, Dundurn

topic: Lying, Sunset, Dawn, 11th Hour, World War 1

What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate. There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.

- Oren Lyons

source: "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

topic: Mean, People, What If, 11th Hour

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

- John McCrae

source: "In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

topic: Blow, Gun, Sky, Memorial Day Poems, Scarce

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

- John McCrae

topic: Fall, Hands, Quarrels, Memorial Day Poems, 11th Hour

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

- Van Cliburn

topic: Music, Artist, Might, 11th Hour

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

- Bo Jackson

topic: May, Hours, Repent, 11th Hour

It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Ocean, Loss, Environmental, Inspirational Environmental, Rainforest

We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

- Al Gore

source: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

topic: War, Struggle, Sacrifice, Struggle For Survival, 11th Hour

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

- Brooks Atkinson

topic: Love, Evil, Balance, 11th Hour, Triumphant

Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

- Al Gore

source: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

topic: Real, Fate, Challenges, 11th Hour