98 Hurricane Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town. Donna Brazile

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I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub. Dwayne Johnson

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. Eddie Vedder

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'Treme' begins after Hurricane Katrina, and it's a year-by-year account of how everyday people there put their lives back together. It's sort of a testament to, or an argument for why, a great American city like New Orleans needs to be saved and preserved. George Pelecanos

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The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear. Ginger Zee

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Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras. Greg MacGillivray

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The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart. Henry Cisneros

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After Hurricane Sandy, we adopted 19 elementary schools in tough neighborhoods. We took each kid in those schools and gave the family a prepaid Visa card. Howard Lutnick

Family Tough Gave Took Visa Kid Those Neighborhoods Hurricane Adopted Schools After Sandy Each Elementary Card

The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued. Jeb Hensarling

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I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme. Jenifer Lewis

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Kids search for what's relevant, what connects with their life... now. They know bad things happen like Hurricane Katrina. Through character driven stories, they explore what it's like to survive, thrive, and become more themselves. Jewell Parker Rhodes

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The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Jim Ramstad

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There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and there's chaos all around me, then I'll shut my eyes, and boom! I slot into the zone. It's like the eye of the hurricane. Everything is easy, and I'm capable of doing things I didn't know I was. Jimmy Barnes

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Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges. Jo Bonner

Challenges Become Nation Past Our Worst Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Unprecedented Faced Week Tragic Episode Cycle Certainly Katrina Now Set

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready. John Hickenlooper

Good People Will Think Thinking Way Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Some About More Small Good Shape More People Fact Shape Talking Ready Tragedy Working Vigilant Katrina Now

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. John James Audubon

Needs Think Waters Must Would Hurricane Scarcely Laying Never Idea Reader Dry Terrific Content Witnessed Quench South Quite Form Grandeur Land Persons Sweep Who Waste Thirst

All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened. Jonathan Demme

Saw Hurricane Followed Horrified Outside New Were New Orleans Heartbroken Hit Happened Us Who Katrina Lived Floods Orleans

After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better. Joseph Stiglitz

One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey. Joseph Stiglitz

Hope Heart Natural Will Before Other Other Countries Harvey Hurricane More Only Taking Countries America Persuasion Lessons Need

Being in the bands of a hurricane, it's not like a tornado that's going to pass very quickly. It's the most serious thing that you will ever experience next to, I'm sure, an earthquake. Joshua Henry

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