Benches Quote by Calvin Johnson

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most of the people - either returned home to the south or found housing near the shelter they were staying at

— Tom Green

This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to…

— Clare Vanderpool

They lived long that have lived well.

— Woodrow Wilson

Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they…

— Jenny Erpenbeck

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land…

— Willa Cather

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what…

— Kenneth Grahame

“All over the world people were slipping away from where they had been, from once fertile plains cracking with dryness, from seaside villages gasping…

— Mohsin Hamid

Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly…

— Harriet Morgan

“After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city.”

— Howard Schultz

“The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores,…

— John Fante

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed…

— Harry Connick, Jr