Flood Quote by Howard Pyle

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the…

— Jonathan Swift

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.

— Miguel de Molinos

The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us…

— Aldo Leopold

“Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.”

— Rachel Carson

To wash this memory clean. Let the floods cross.

— Linkin Park

E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend,…

— Virgil

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out…

— Norman Rush

Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in…

— Matthew Arnold

“See in the mind’s eye wind blowing chaff on ancient threshing floors when men with fans toss up the trodden sheaves, and yellow-haired Demeter,…

— Homer

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born…

— Alexander Pope

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Here at the creek mouth the fields run on to the river, the mud deltaed and baring out of its rich alluvial harbored bones…

— Cormac McCarthy