Floods Quotes

127 Floods quotes by 114 unique authors

AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases… — Nelson Mandela
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can… — Bob Maguire
Noah heeded God’s command to build an ark…that they might be saved from the floodwaters. Yet there was no evidence of rain and flood. His… — Thomas S. Monson
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented… — John Breaux
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my… — Samantha Stosur
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither… — Hal Borland
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each… — Russel Honore
And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and… — Naomi Klein
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
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
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
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
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
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact… — Paul Stamets
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. — John Muir
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence… — David Suzuki
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of… — Sheldon Whitehouse
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs… — Marilynne Robinson

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