Devastation Quotes
115 quotes by 105 authors
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Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was crying…
— Louise Brealey
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right…
— Connie Sellecca
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The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science…
— Shimon Peres
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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must…
— Maya Angelou
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We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an…
— Nikola Tesla
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When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine…
— Joan Halifax
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The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they…
— Isaac Rosenberg
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The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the…
— Thomas Berry
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People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not the only place…
— Takashi Nagai
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A human encounter with holiness is devastating. It refuses to allow us to be impressed with the things of the world we’ve been chasing. It…
— Todd Agnew
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The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today…
— Gordon Wright
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The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments…
— Thomas Berry
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused…
— Omar Bongo
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Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives…
— Wilfred Burchett
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We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It…
— Hugh Shelton
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Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.
— David Jeremiah
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PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they…
— Michael Arad
Who Wrote These Devastation Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 115 Devastation Quotes, led by these top contributors: