Hurricanes Quotes

• In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Technology, Reminders, Humbling

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• A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ocean, Water, No Fear

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• Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

  Tom Feeney

  Florida, Two, Aftermath

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• In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Quiet, Gods Will

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Anger, Wind, Poetry

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.138

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• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  Sally Ride

  Ocean, Night, Cities

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

  Laura Bush

  Children, School, Want

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• I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

  Norman Jewison

  Winning, Actors, Denzel

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• America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

  Norman Mailer

  Stupid, Eye, White

  1959 Advertisements for Myself,'Advertisement for "Games and Ends"'.

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• Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

  Bobby Jindal

  Rhode Island, Islands, Years

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• In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

  Bobby Jindal

  Home, Louisiana, Dozen

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• As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

  Bobby Jindal

  Communication, Government, Louisiana

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• Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.

  Paul Gillmor

  Gasoline, Devastation, Common

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• Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.

  Jim Caviezel

  Littles, Never Quit, Exciting

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• I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

  Roald Dahl

  Egypt, Iraq, Flying

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

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• Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.

  Jo Bonner

  Recovery, Two, Devastation

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• These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  America, United States, Disaster

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• I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Grateful, Earthquakes

  "Transcript: Bill Clinton's Democratic Convention Speech". abcnews.go.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Years, Names

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• As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

  Clement Clarke Moore

  Christmas, Sky, Flew Up

  Clement Clarke Moore (1934). “The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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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

  Heart, Decision, Has Beens

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