(46 quotes found)
“You really see dignity within people who are living through the most horrific of times.”
Carl Mydans
“It's horrible, it's horrific, it offends the sensibilities.”
Bill Grant
“The most horrific scenes I've ever seen. I couldn't imagine that we would have seen it exactly as we did. It looked as if a bomb had exploded along the coast of Mississippi. And then when we got to my home state of Louisiana and my home district, covered with water, just 80 percent of the city, just a massive devastation. ... I think [George W. Bush] had to agree with us that it was a totally unacceptable response. I know it was an overwhelming storm, but that, of course, meant that the tragedy was enormous and the need to respond was greater than ever before. Yet we waited days to get a response. It was very unorganized, and people suffered as a consequence of it. ... FEMA couldn't decide how to coordinate with the states and couldn't decide how to accept help. And it was just a massive set of inefficiencies.”
William Jefferson
“Tens of thousands lost their mothers and fathers. Thousands were victims of horrific brutality and rape. Many were forced to commit atrocities. The impact of the tragedy simply cannot be overstated,”
Carol Bellamy
“This was truly horrific and tragic, because they were so close to moving into their dream home. Everyone is in shock. Pamela was the kind of spirit that you just wanted to be around.”
Carolyn Layne
“He's one of the toughest I've been involved with. He's played under some horrific injuries.”
Wayne Bennett
“There were horrific cases occurring among women going through a trial of labor. There's a lot of hard, irrefutable data on the increased risk. It would have been immoral to not have come out with the new recommendation.”
Charles Lockwood
“It's devastating. I've never been that close to anything so horrific in my life.”
Charlene Lowry
“The audience hated us. They screamed and talked all through our act. It was the most horrific experience of our lives. We thought our lives were over and we'd never work again.”
Charlie Brill
“The horrific sacrifice Emmett Till and his mother made is something no family should have to make, no child or parent. But that sacrifice has also served as a beacon to the country for tolerance and acceptance.”
Cheryle Jackson
