69 Flood Quotes for You to Enjoy

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. Emily Greene Balch

Time Suffering Ran Cost Computation Through Beyond Course Which Mankind Fascism Lived Flood Waste

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt. Erik Larson

In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today. Evan Osnos

Today People Dams Hundred Collapse Thousand Rarely Cascade Names Discussed Victims Chinese Event Flood Largely

I never thought I'd be playing 60 games a season for City, I knew I would be playing half of that if I was lucky. I knew at a club with that much power and resources there would always be a flood of players into the team. Fabian Delph

Thought Power Half Club Resources Would Would-Be City Never Knew Always Much Games Team Lucky Flood Season Players Playing

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. Francois Truffaut

Me Films Liberation Paris Pictures American After Flood Switched

Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key for the player, for that team, and how do we deliver it in a way that it might stick and have an effect. Gareth Southgate

You Key Think Thinking Way Deliver Stick Always How Effect Information Might Coach Team Flood Player Players

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion. Gary Miller

Today Service National Total More Participate Policies Insurance Insurance Companies Covering Sell Than Communities Billion Companies Flood Million Four Program

State ownership of flood control efforts will not completely eliminate the problem but can substantially reduce it. George P. Bush

Problem Will Control Ownership State Reduce Efforts Substantially Flood Eliminate

There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region. George P. Bush

Together State Benefit Additionally State Level Projects Must Entity Could Authority Upstream Region Stakeholders Communities Multiple Flood Coordinate Level Bring

We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral. Jeb Hensarling

Government Family Responders First Lose Thinking Everything Approval We Cannot Immoral More Risking Fooled Wrong Safe Another Because Insurance Were Than Cannot Sent Them Rescue Seal Flood Lives Watch Program

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy. Joe Barton

Environmental Great You Bible Change Example Energy Say Out Would Point Had Because Climate Climate Change Mankind Certainly Flood Believer

We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence. Joel Salatin

Forgiveness Better Building Farm Believe More Drought Ecosystem Does Handle Disease Forgiving Mean Should Flood

I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing. John Shimkus

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. John Wesley Powell

Prayer Dance Changed Drought Come Climate Years Famine Flood

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in. Jonathan Frid

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. Karl Pearson

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood. Ken Burns

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Ken Ham

Bible Mercy Judgment Also Account Salvation While Flood

Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Time Waiting Passion Holiday Season Mind Year Sit Down Aligned Gifts Worthy About Direct Give Mail Take Instead Until Identify Learn Because Making Causes Dollars Stock Holiday Your Organizations Flood Season

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood. Marie Rutkoski

Myself School Kid Favorite Tell Would Favorite Things Would-Be Scene Castle Through Cabinet Like Did Wonders Influence Where Stories Bursts Used Certainly Novel Sudden Flood Things Imagine

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums. Martin Filler

Work Inevitable Other Mediums Final Seventies Easily Carried Out Jobs Physical Architects More Prevent Winning Attaining Demands Cultural Achieved Artists Transcendent Eighties Modern-Day Capacities Many Flood Stardom Necessarily Phase Assistants

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. Michael Chertoff

Home You Respect Problems Lose Put Particular Obviously Another Because Mobile Going Want Plain Them Flood Homes Second Two

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine. Nancy Gibbs

Life War People Farm Earthquake Spent Out Photographer City Most His Camps Refugee Famine Want James Flattened Swallowed Places Avoid Professional Village Professional Life Flood Zone

Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years. Nathaniel Rateliff

I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape. Nell Scovell

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