“My overwhelming reaction to 9/11 - I was at home in Los Angeles getting my two children, then ten and 12, ready for school - is inextricably bound up not with what happened on 9/11, but with what happened the next day ... Lines formed at blood banks, billions of dollars were donated to charities and…”— Arianna Huffington, businessinsider.comTagged: Never Forget, America, Freedom
“It was the most terrifying, the most heartbreaking day. I was on a plane the evening before it happened, September 10. I was in Los Angeles, and all I wanted was to get back to my home — New York.”— Al Pacino, businessinsider.comTagged: Freedom, USA, New York
“Every time that day kind of comes about, I always think about the fact that I was in the 4th grade and what happened and all those feelings that we had and how everybody was distraught. I just feel like every time that comes around, I hope people acknowledge it and I hope that they just keep praying…”— Selena Gomez, businessinsider.comTagged: Freedom, USA
“I lived in lower Manhattan at the time. So I just remember walking out of my apartment and seeing it and then going back in and watching CNN 'cause I was so hungry for information, trying to figure out what’s going on.”— Matt Damon, businessinsider.comTagged: USA, New York, Freedom
“I was on my way back to England, and we were at JFK on the tarmac, and the pilot just suddenly said, 'We can't take off. We're going to have to go back to base.' And out of the window on the right‑hand side of the airplane, you could see the twin towers. You could see one plume of smoke, and then yo…”— Pauly McCartney, businessinsider.comTagged: Freedom, USA, America
“It took everything that I knew — not just as a journalist — but as a husband, and a father, and citizen to get through that day.”— Tom Brokaw, businessinsider.comTagged: USA, New York, Pride, Freedom
“For me, the normal process when you lose loved ones is you take time to grieve and take time away from some of the things you do on a daily basis and you pay tribute to those people that lost their lives. To me, that meant not playing football that week.”— Vinny Testaverde, amazon.comTagged: USA, New York, Pride
“As a New Yorker, it's very intense. I've never really spoken about this before but I was in New York on September 11 and I watched the Towers fall with all my girlfriends from the roof of our school. The whole city was covered in ashes.”— Lady GaGa, businessinsider.comTagged: USA, New York, America, Pride
“I left a meeting right after they hit the World Trade Center. I went to my apartment, which looks south, and I watched it out my window. I could see the line of fire across the North Tower. I had my binoculars and a video camera--though I didn't want to video it. I saw a few people jump. Then I saw…”— Robert DeNiro, businessinsider.comTagged: America, USA, Pride