Floods Quotes

127 Floods quotes by 114 unique authors

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
Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights… — Susan Fletcher
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis de Sade
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in… — John Muir
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments! — Nicholas A. Basbanes
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?… — Virginia Woolf

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