Floods Quotes
127 quotes by 116 authors
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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
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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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
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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
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I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
— Marc Chagall
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God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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