Author Profile
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
1963 • Canadian • Activist
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesIf I ever see those pilots who dropped the bombs on me - or any American pilots - I would say to them, 'The war is over. The past is past.' I would ask those pilots what can they do to bring us all together.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
I had a lot of pity for myself. But I could concentrate more on my studies as a result.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
We should work together to be of peace and happiness for all people in all nations.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
I did not think that I could marry or have any children because of my burns. But now I have a wonderful husband, a lovely child and a happy family, thank God.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
I hated myself. I hated people who made war. I hated people who were normal. I envied them. I wish I would be normal.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
My character is not sad, not angry. In my house, I'm always laughing, smiling, smiling.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Every movement of mine was under the control of the Vietnamese government, a communist country. I was just a prisoner without walls.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Religion doesn't help me at all. But the relationship between me and God and Jesus, that changed my life.— Phan Thi Kim Phuc