Flood Quotes

474 Flood quotes by 388 unique authors

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions,… — Antony C. Sutton
I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle… — Jim Beaver
We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought. — Phyllis Diller
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. — Michael Jackson
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some… — Winston Churchill
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. — Madeline Miller
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. — Gary Snyder
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water… — Bill McKibben
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. — Yayoi Kusama
The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future — Phil Harding
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. — John Dryden
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of… — Thomas Jefferson
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first… — Ralph Ellison
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a… — Brian Aldiss
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:… — George R. R. Martin
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I… — Petrarch
M'Illumino D'Immenso - I flood myself with the light of the immense. — Unknown Author
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer. — Stephen Crane
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I… — Rabindranath Tagore
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that… — Earl Blumenauer
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. — William Butler Yeats
For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists… — Gautama Buddha
These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated… — Gautama Buddha

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