Thoughts on a Tragedy
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Various quotes made in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.
"We are better than we think....We are alive and with the imagination we will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all this sadness, we are the Hokies! We will prevail! We will prevail! We will prevail! We will prevail! We are Virginia Tech!" -- Virginia tech teacher and poet, Nikki Giovanni
"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him." -- Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker on gunman Cho Seung-Hui
"People who have never met you are praying for you. They're praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured." -- President Bush to Virginia Tech students and teachers
"We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did." -- Cho's classmate Stephanie Derry.
"He was a nice, clean-cut college kid. We won't sell a gun if we have any idea at all that a purchase is suspicious." --
John Markell, owner of the gun shop where Cho bought his murder weapon
"We will move on from this. But it will take the strength of each other to do that." -- Zenobia Hikes, vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech
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