Earthquake Quotes
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Earthquake Quotes & Sayings
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Within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism.
— Daniel M. Gilbert
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.
— William Bernhardt
If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
— Charles Francis Richter
Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
— Oprah Winfrey
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
— Oswald Chambers
Earthquake report: This is the big one.
— Sharon M. Draper
It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.
— Sonny Bono
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
— Biz Stone
Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas ... and improve the roads.
— Bill Maher
In 1338 Kingsai was visited by an earthquake of ten days' duration;
— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker
She's like an earthquake in tiny human form, breaking apart anything and everything in her way.
— Victoria Aveyard
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
— Andy Borowitz
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
— Sorin Cerin
Southern Californians freak out when it rains, yet when there's an earthquake they're like 'pass the salt.
— Gregor Collins
After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.
— Peter Vecsey
We were forever one earthquake away from losing it all.
— Alison Singh Gee
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
— Dorothy Thompson
earthquake P-waves had reportedly been made with microphones
— Bernie Krause
The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot.
— Jack Benny
Wind chimes are also earthquake chimes.
— Demetri Martin
Attention everyone,we're having an earthquake drill at 11:02, 11:03, 11:04, 11:05, 11:06, and 11:07.
— Jerry Snider
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
— Rebecca Solnit
It takes an earthquake to alter the course of a river. What does it take to change the course of life?
— Avery Williams
You might be a redneck if ... the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.
— Jeff Foxworthy
We're petal people. I think about the earthquake kiss in the alcove and want to cry again.
— Jandy Nelson
It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.
— Rebecca Solnit
A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
— Mahatma Gandhi
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
— Michelle Richmond
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
— Frederick Douglass
It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?
— Charles Dickens
I will have you; be it in a thunderstorm, a tornado, or even an earthquake. You shall be mine.
— Lindy Zart
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
— George Alagiah
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
— Conrad Veidt
Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up!
— Haruki Murakami
I would be lying if I said there were not times that I am an earthquake contained inside this skin
— Tyler Knott Gregson
It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.
— Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.
— Charles Bukowski
An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
— George Orwell
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
— Charles Kuralt
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
— Douglas William Jerrold
In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.
— Marcus Samuelsson
Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake
— Jeannette Rankin
Earthquake report: Expect big aftershocks - nothing like this has ever been seen before.
— Sharon M. Draper
Earthquake report: Call the paramedics. A girl in fifth grade is about to explode.
— Sharon M. Draper
Charlotte didn't just shake my world. She created an earthquake that had irrevocably changed the landscape of my life.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.
— Bill Ballance
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
— Samuel Goldwyn
No es buen momento para un terremoto," Lupe used to say. "It's not a good moment for an earthquake.
— John Irving
We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
— John Breaux
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
— Alyssa Milano
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
— Sylvester Stallone
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
— Wesley Strick
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But pinning a size on an earthquake remains such a convoluted process that seismologists break out in a sweat trying to explain it to a layperson.
— Sandi Doughton
I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.
— Gloria Reuben
It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.
— Reggie Fils-Aime
THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake.
— Randall Munroe
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".
— Sebastian Junger
Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.
— Claud Cockburn
My world's not worth saving without you.
— Aprilynne Pike
Una's death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself.
— John Steinbeck
Life shifts, sometimes shakes like an earthquake.
— Kate Angell
Earthquake report: Walls are tumbling everywhere!
— Sharon M. Draper
Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.
— Robert Barron
All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake ... will be felt right up to the White House.
— Abol-Ghasem Kashani
..If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.
— Bryant McGill