Tornadoes Quotes

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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
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
We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as â€œnatural… — David Suzuki
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
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all aboutâ€”not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next,… — Fred Rogers
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
I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar." — Jack Handey
Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.' — Merlin Mann
You might be a redneck if...you've been on TV more than times describing the sound of a tornado. — Jeff Foxworthy
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the… — Herman Melville
It's like being in the middle of a tornado. It's like, whooooooosh, you know what I'm saying? It's like Dorothy-you wake up and find yourself… — Jennifer Lopez
I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow… — Werner Herzog
There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it. — David Copperfield
I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never… — Joyce Tenneson
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it… — Edie Brickell
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose… — Edward Zwick
For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend,… — Mary McCarthy
My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in… — Kate Christensen
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a… — Joel Achenbach
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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