Floods Quotes

127 quotes by 116 authors

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
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Walter Raleigh
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
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
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all… — William C. Bryant
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements… — Mikhail Lomonosov
Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy… — Cilla Black
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as… — Edward Dahlberg
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. — George Monbiot
You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there… — Nicholas Stern
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth.… — Bill McKibben
The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The… — John Beddington
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A… — William Shakespeare
Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of… — Oswald Chambers
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in… — Gerald Durrell
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

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