Hurricanes Quotes
240 quotes by 211 authors
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
— Diane Ackerman
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I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
— James Van Der Beek
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Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation -…
— Jo Bonner
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If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments;…
— Michael Bloomberg
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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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I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United…
— Naomi Campbell
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I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both…
— William J. Clinton
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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.
— Maya Angelou
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If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves.…
— Richard Bach
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of…
— Ruben Dario
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving…
— Janet Morris
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Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he…
— Winston Churchill
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The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save…
— Kofi Annan
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All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to…
— John Hagee
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It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.
— Jim Gaffigan
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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in…
— John Green
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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
— Joseph J. Romm
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I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs…
— Hazel McCallion
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On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's…
— James Thayer
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What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is…
— Al Gore
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