Flood Quotes

474 Flood quotes by 388 unique authors

Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on… — Sophy Burnham
Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and… — Black Elk
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than… — Bill Moyers
To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water… — Frederick Lenz
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation. — James Hansen
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried… — William Shakespeare
Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the… — William Shakespeare
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,… — Alexander Pope
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind… — Joseph Conrad
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. — Charles Churchill
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is… — James Dickey
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets… — Robert Bridges
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart… — Amy Poehler
Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed. — Robert G. Allen
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.… — Adyashanti
And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless… — Lawren Harris
It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since… — John Muir
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly… — John Muir
I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me.… — Emily Dickinson
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood… — John Muir
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And… — Vladimir Lenin
I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean… — Betty Cuthbert

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