Columbine Quotes:

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

- Marilyn Manson

source: "Q&A: A Conversation With Marilyn Manson and Ray Manzarek". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.rollingstone.com. ugust 16, 2012.

topic: Vietnam, Awful, Columbine

The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it’s come to the point where they don’t need to give any reason at all.

- Michael Moore

source: "Bowling for Columbine", www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Jobs, Media, Giving, Columbine

Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

- Morgan Freeman

source: "Morgan Freeman Article Provides Valid View of the Sandy Hook Shootings and Our Media" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

topic: Names, Oregon, Eric, Columbine, Shooter

The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

- Dorothy Wordsworth

source: Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK

topic: Retirement, Growing, Female, Columbine

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Violence, Violent, Favourite, Modernity, Columbine

I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.

- Rachel Scott

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Compassion, Way, Chains, Chain Reactions, Columbine

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

- John McCain

topic: Prayer, Children, Pain, Cindy, Columbine

Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Kids, Pursuit Of Happiness, College, Columbine, Right To Life

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: — there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: — we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: — you may wear your rue with a difference. — There's a daisy: — I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: — They say, he made a good end.

- William Shakespeare

source: "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare".

topic: Sweet, Father, Sunday, Rue, Father Died

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

- Dave Eggers

topic: Blue, Views, Oakland, Rooftops, Berkeley

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [174]

topic: Hamlet And Ophelia, Rosemary, Herbs, Ophelia, Columbine

Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.

- L. Neil Smith

source: "Murder by Gun Control". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 31, 2000.

topic: Teacher, Kids, Exercise, Columbine, Young Life

September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

- Richard Peck

topic: Children, Home, Waiting, Columbine

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

- Michael Moore

topic: School, Gun, Issues, Columbine, School Shooting

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

- Gus Van Sant

topic: Kids, Games, Elephants, Massacres, Columbine

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

- Marilyn Manson

topic: Teenager, Kids, Gun, Eighteen Years Old, Columbine

Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Running, Cutting, Rocks, Bluebird, Aspens

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

- Natalie Goldberg

source: Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

topic: Summer, Falling In Love, Fun, Columbine, Petunias

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

- John Keats

topic: Rose, Green, Golden, Savory, Mint

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Wisdom, Men, Evil, Baseness, Columbine

The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The second time I came, some nut shot up Columbine High School. Now I'm here again, and another nut just shot up a high school in Minnesota. If you can't see the connection between me playing the Comedy Festival and mass murder, you're no good at conspiracy theories.

- Rich Hall

topic: School, Nuts, People, Tasmania, Columbine

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

- Marilyn Manson

source: "Freak or unique?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2003.

topic: Tvs, Eras, Faces, Different Eras, Columbine

[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others.

- Judd Nelson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: School, People, Want, Columbine