"Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of……" — Naomi Shihab Nye
"Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me."
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49 Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye has 49 quotes on this site.
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Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling,…
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper…
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
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Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your…
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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the…
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on…
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we…
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I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body...
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Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.
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For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you…
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More Hurricane Quotes
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one of 238 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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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Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing…
— 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…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place…
— 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…
— 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…
— Maya Angelou
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of…
— Janet Morris
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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…
— John Green
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Al Gore
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