Flood Quotes

• The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

  Douglas Adams

  Raindrops, Responsible, Feels

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• Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.

  Gilbert F. White

  Loss, Men

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Encouragement, Fear, Patriotic

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• Great floods have flown From simple sources.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Source

  William Shakespeare (2016). “All's Well That Ends Well”, Simon and Schuster

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• The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

  John Shimkus

  Men, Earth, End Of The World

  "Faith in ignorance: Politicians who quote the Bible often don't know anything about the Bible". www.salon.com. October 8, 2016.

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

  John Ruskin

  Rain, Individual, Responsible

  "Natural Disasters Condolence Speech - Adam Bandt Discusses Natural Disasters and Climate Change". adam-bandt.greensmps.org.au. February 09, 2011.

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• All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

  Toni Morrison

  Nature, Memories, Reality

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

  Alan Ladd

  Strong, Enough, Weak

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• When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

  Hal Borland

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

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• Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

  Wendell Berry

  Rain, Good Luck, Fishing

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.148, Counterpoint Press

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• Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Nice, Rivers, Water

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• The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Running, Ends, Roof

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• You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

  Emily Dickinson

  Wind, Cedars, Drawers

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

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• What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

  William Shakespeare

  Engineering, Bridges, Needs

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.280

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Sweet, Two, Rivers

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• And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

  A. A. Milne

  Share, Exciting, Ifs

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.99, Egmont UK

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• I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.

  Alexandra Cousteau

  Believe, Water, Storm

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• Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Friendship, Faith, Lying

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• Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, News, Flood Likes

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• Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Sea, Rivers

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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