Hurricanes Quotes

• In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Quiet, Gods Will

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• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Technology, Reminders, Humbling

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• A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ocean, Water, No Fear

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• In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.138

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• The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Wind, Tree, Bending

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• You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

  Neil Young

  Song, Eye, Calm

  Neil Young (2010). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab”, p.28, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Butterfly, Wings, Causes

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• The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Blow, Weather, Two

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

  Anderson Cooper

  Liars, Lying, Littles

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• I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

  Jim Parsons

  College, Class, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He will come with a mouth full of forevers and skin as sweet as spring time. He will kiss the places that hurt and will tell you the scars are beautiful. He will cover every inch of you in words he's learned and dress you in the colors of every season and he will not be the one. He will feel like a hurricane and you'll wonder how you will ever recover and rebuild.
  But you will.
  You always will.
  And you'll realize he is not the one.

  Tyler Kent

  Beautiful, Sweet, Hurt

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• Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Fun, House, Matter

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

  Marty Meehan

  Iraq, Burden, Share

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• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

  Steve Buyer

  Country, Believe, Weakness

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• Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

  Bob Ney

  Summer, Gasoline Prices, Driving

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• The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

  David Satcher

  Country, Impact, Disparity

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• As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar.

  Rick Renzi

  Summer, America, Energy

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• Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.

  Charles Rangel

  People, President, Aftermath

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• The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

  Jon Porter

  Earthquakes, Generosity, Support

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• Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

  Shemar Moore

  Men, Training, Denzel

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Hockey, Reality

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• I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

  Wentworth Miller

  Training, Three, Months

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