“It’s like you have to keep...

“It’s like you have to keep pouring more coffee in the cup or you

have an empty cup in your hand.”

-- Brian Slater, a Newport Beach Fire Department Paramedic, on

trying to play the bagpipes

“The photograph of the twin towers burning reminds me daily that

my challenges pale compared to the victims of Sept. 11.”

-- Lyle Davis, a Newport Beach resident who on business in Newark,

N.J., on Sept. 11, 2001, on watching both World Trade Center towers

crumble and how his world has changed forever

“I don’t think this will happen again, the flight attendants won’t

let it happen again.”

-- Lynette Palmquist, a flight attendant who works out of John

Wayne Airport, on not allowing terrorists to take over a passenger

plane again

“Residents should feel very safe as they go about their daily

activities. We have additional resources available in the unlikely

event that anything happens and we have the capability to respond to

anything that occurs.”

-- John Klein, a Newport Beach Police Lieutenant, on life today,

more than a year after the terrorist attacks on the East Coast

“If that disaster happened here, I know the East Coast officers

would also chip in over here. This is our way of giving back a little

to them.... It’s a big family and we want to keep it together.”

-- Kurtiss Lystne, a 10-year Costa Mesa Police veteran, on a Sept.

11 concert fund-raiser he put on with band Citizen Joe

“They’re grounded in reality. They are in response to a specific

event. Namely, the worst attack of Americans in history.”

-- Mark Miller, rabbi from Temple Bat Yahm, on questions received

since Sept. 11, 2001