Hurricanes Quotes · Page 5

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

— Rebecca Solnit

Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

— Thomas Carper

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will likely result from global warming.”

— Steven Magee

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

— Carl Hiaasen

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters…

— Rebecca Wells

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath…

— Tom Feeney

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

— Richard Baker

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

— Diane Ackerman

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited…

— Naomi Campbell

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in…

— Ambrose Bierce

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to…

— Clement Clarke Moore

Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching…

— Janet Morris

Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with…

— Judy Blundell

Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been…

— Ricardo Rossello

Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective…

— David Suzuki

I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I…

— Trick Daddy

The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer…

— Newt Gingrich

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense…

— Henry Adams

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to…

— Alan Watts

It has been said, by engineers themselves, that given enough money, they can accomplish virtually anything: send men to the moon, dig…

— Henry Petroski

I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…

— James Wolcott

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-…

— Tim Dorsey

These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are…

— Kofi Annan

Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this…

— Edwidge Danticat

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

— Mark Shand

It's not that George Bush doesn't care about black people, god made hurricanes, not people who can't swim.

— Zach Braff

Women and hurricanes are two of the same. When they come they are extremely wet, and when they leave they take your…

— Anonymous

We're looking at a much worse [Hurricane] risk than people were thinking about a year ago ...some places are going to become…

— Judith Curry

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.

— Nathan Lowell

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.

— Richard Baker

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

— Kerry Emanuel

I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.

— Eva Longoria

I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.

— Gary Bettman

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

— Paul Gillmor

Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

— Kerry Emanuel

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a…

— Maya Angelou

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a…

— Joshua Slocum

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

— Don Kelly

Don't you know That lovers make the rains, Call forth the sun, Re-route hurricanes, And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

— James Kavanaugh

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes……

— Neil deGrasse Tyson