Hurricanes Quotes - Page 8

• Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Lying, Adventure, Sleep

  5 Copy quote

• We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

  Richard Baker

  New Orleans, Hateful, Poor

  7 Copy quote

• Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

  Claire Danes

  Broken Heart, Moving, Earthquakes

  12 Copy quote

• I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

  Joshua Slocum

  Beautiful, Men, Sea

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.193, Applewood Books

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.

  Andy Borowitz

  Earthquakes, Made, Untrue

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Aug 29, 2011

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  Natalie Jeremijenko

  Florida, Environmental, Driven

  "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register." by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't you know
  That lovers make the rains,
  Call forth the sun,
  Re-route hurricanes,
  And exorcise earthquakes for fun.

  James Kavanaugh

  Fun, Rain, Earthquakes

  7 Copy quote

• Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Reading, Emotional

  6 Copy quote

• Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

  Janet Yellen

  Summer, Couple, California

  10 Copy quote

• Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Law, Doe, Gestures

  16 Copy quote

• More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

  Julie Klam

  Dog, Animal, Fire

  5 Copy quote

• I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Maps, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

  7 Copy quote

• After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

  Katy Perry

  Rainbow

  Song: Firework, Album: Teenage Dream

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE in the historical past, many of the other stories juxtapose fact-both historical and scientific-with narration to an engaging effect, one that distinguishes the voice of this new writer.

  Stuart Dybek

  Past, Voice, Space

  4 Copy quote

• I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.

  Eva Longoria

  Littles, Suits, Little Things

  5 Copy quote

• It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

  Kenneth Williams

  Storm, Arthur, Port

  11 Copy quote

• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Fear, Rain, Darkness

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2011). “In Desert and Wilderness (橫越撒哈拉)”, p.610, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

  5 Copy quote

• What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

  Susan Faludi

  Government, Looks, Saws

  53 Copy quote

• After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

  Tyson Chandler

  Wife, Needs, News

  "Tyson Chandler Volunteers In The Rockaways: Talking To The Knicks Star About Sandy Relief Efforts". Huffington Post New York Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  New Orleans, House, Pilots

  9 Copy quote

• Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

  Alan Jackson

  Strong, Past, Alcohol

  14 Copy quote

• You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

  Bob Dylan

  Family, Snakes, Fists

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

  6 Copy quote

  Show source