Flood Quotes

474 Flood quotes by 388 unique authors

For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world… — Gregory David Roberts
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think… — William Butler Yeats
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. — Haruki Murakami
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened… — Charlotte Bronte
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there… — Madeleine L'Engle
Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart. — Haruki Murakami
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. — Jeanette Winterson
Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,… — Khaled Hosseini
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn… — Lauren Oliver
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when… — Tom Robbins
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. — Unknown Author
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't… — Ray Bradbury
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves… — George Eliot
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.… — Anne Carson
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not,… — John Green
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood. — Elizabeth Kostova
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political… — Noam Chomsky
And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise.… — Elie Wiesel
A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds. — Mindy Kaling
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and… — Thomas Hardy
He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was… — Sarah Addison Allen
All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a… — Edwidge Danticat
If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused… — Rick Riordan

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