Tornado Quotes
81 quotes by 72 authors
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive.…
— Isaac Asimov
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with…
— Henry Mitchell
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The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard…
— Fred Hoyle
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I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the…
— Mark-Paul Gosselaar
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You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
— Robin Williams
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I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.
— Larry the Cable Guy
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It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a…
— Jamie McMurray
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Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness,…
— Raymond Burr
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I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit…
— Melanie Brown
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Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
— Susan Piver
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It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also…
— Roy Spencer
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This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.
— Lizz Winstead
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HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters…
— Spencer Bachus
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A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What…
— Fred Hoyle
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Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in…
— Mary Blakely
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I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next,…
— Fred Rogers
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In some places it's known as a tornado. In others, a cyclone. And in still others, the Idiot's Merry-go-round. But around here they'll always be…
— Jack Handey
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I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar."
— Jack Handey
Who Wrote These Tornado Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 81 Tornado Quotes, led by these top contributors: