Flood Quotes

474 Flood quotes by 388 unique authors

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate… — Joe Barton
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom… — Vinoba Bhave
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a… — Aeschylus
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large… — Earl Blumenauer
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. — Nicolas Chamfort
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning… — A. R. Ammons
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh
Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at… — Unknown Author
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll… — George Meredith
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! — Unknown Author
Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe. — Drake
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would… — Arthur C. Clarke
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what… — Khalil Gibran
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,… — Heber J. Grant
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts… — Rajneesh
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,… — Mark Helprin
I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. — Marc Chagall
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. — Mignon McLaughlin
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never… — Isaac Asimov
God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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388 authors contributed a total of 474 Flood Quotes, led by these top contributors: