"Of course we don't understand why somebody would attack the Red Cross."

"Of course we don't understand why somebody would attack the Red Cross."
Nada Doumani
Red Cross spokeswoman, after a deadly suicide bombing outside the group's building in Baghdad.
"I got our animals."
Brandy DeBatte
Who stayed at her Crestline, Calif., home until the electricity went out and the smoke started to thicken from a wildfire.
"It's 15 mothers and me. And they're looking at me funny, as if to say, 'Do you have a real job?' It took a little bit of adjustment."
Frank Kwan
Communications director for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, recalling trips to his daughter's kindergarten class, where he was the only father volunteering as a classroom helper.