Floods Quotes: top 73 famous quotes about Floods

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Great floods have flown From simple sources. — William Shakespeare

For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities. — Yangsze Choo

Give him the ones in which the floods of venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and low-grade paranoia. — Terry Pratchett

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. — Mignon McLaughlin

I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors. — Marc Chagall

The storm is here and now. The rains come and water floods our lives. Nothing last forever and the rainbow always appears. — Michaelson Williams

strength floods in after a fall. — Mark Helprin

Floods are an act of God; flood
damages result from the acts of men. — Gilbert White

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. — Sherman Alexie

Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor can the floods drown it. — Rolf Schonberger

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; — Walter Raleigh

You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others. "Anything from floods to poisoned fish. Think of something cheerful! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. — John Dryden

I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me. — Emily Dickinson

All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug. — David Levithan

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

And remember, small thaws make great floods, so be twice wary of a slowly changing season. — Patrick Rothfuss

When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion. — Nhat Hanh

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. — Rick Riordan

Droughts and floods create all kinds of business opportunities besides a growing demand for men with guns. — Naomi Klein

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods ... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible. — Gary Locke

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism. — Edmund Morris

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration. — Moonshine Noire

But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate. — Michael Lee West

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. — Erich Maria Remarque

A door opens, and hot white light floods the room, blinding him momentarily. He blinks and blinks until the world re-forms. — Anonymous

Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades...Cold hearted world! — Pantera

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

Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods. — Grady Hendrix

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India — Dale Carnegie

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. — Paul Hawken

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there. — Farid Al-Din Attar

But now it all floods back - the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her — Alex Flinn

Thunder splits the rift where the Sun floods in. — David Mitchell

Noah was so shut in that no evil could reach him. Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him on his way. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Stagnation floods the mind with thoughts of failure and slowly drowns the will to succeed; always move forward. — Noel DeJesus

When pride thaws, look for floods. — Philip James Bailey

Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust. — Alfred De Musset

And really, it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share them with somebody. — A.A. Milne

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. — Gilbert F. White

People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms. — John Holdren

Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late. — Haruki Murakami

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses. — StorySmitten

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. — Ban Ki-moon

Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls,
I speculate no more. — Emily Dickinson

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. — William C. Bryant

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. — George Monbiot

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. — Marc Chagall

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. — Rumi

No more crying. Tears only cause destructive
floods. When you are sad, you build a boat. — Katherine Russell

Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me. — Dale Forehand

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. — Haruki Murakami

Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it. — Madeleine L'Engle

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day. — Madonna Ciccone

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis De Sade

The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future — Phil Harding

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture. — George Eliot

Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. — Rick Yancey

All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up. — Erma Bombeck

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. — Stephen King

Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine. — Karen White

We've probably run a mile, maybe two, and with each new corridor that turns up nothing, stress floods my veins. — Pittacus Lore

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. — Rachel Stevens

Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies. — Jeffrey Friedland

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey

When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation — Allen Ginsberg

The burning red taste of blood floods my mouth. The sparkle of life sprays out of his cells like citrus mist from an orange peel, and I suck it in. — Isaac Marion

Love is an ocean of emotion, No waters however can quench love nor can floods drown it — Julie Gamble

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

If a graveyard floods, nothing is lost that wasn't already gone. — Ally Condie

Thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears ... — Stephen King

The world was floods above and fire below — Gregory Maguire