Hurricanes Quotes - Page 13

• On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's no need to first describe the kitchen."

  James Thayer

  Fall, Writing, Blow

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• What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

  Al Gore

  Fire, Years, Civilization

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• As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

  Kerry Emanuel

  Climate, Limits, Speed

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• Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn’t going.

  Warren Sapp

  Home, Way, Miami

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• There’s something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and there’s a lot of fun to be had doing that.

  Joseph Morgan

  Jobs, Fun, Drama

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• Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city
  5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Smart, New Orleans, Assessment

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• Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

  Don Kelly

  Cities, Traffic, Percent

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• I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

  Greg Roberts

  Thinking, Years, Effort

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• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

  Christina Ricci

  Years, Causes, Destruction

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• In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on God alone. When no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God--and God alone!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Blessed, Men

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.

  Trick Daddy

  Nice, Two, People

  "Trick Daddy says 'Magic City' book exposes the 'Real Miami'" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.

  Thomas Carper

  Needs, Records, Medical

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• Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.

  Pam Houston

  Adventure, Heart, Years

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• The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.

  Vera Brittain

  Lying, Rushing, Giving

  Vera Brittain (2012). “Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor in New Orleans, and I was sure that somewhere in Alaska some poor Inuit had just taken a tumble from his sled for the very same reason.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Country, Military, Taken

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• So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

  John Green

  Rain, Unrequited Love, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.71, Penguin

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• It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. With all the Super Bowl excitement, it's nice for people to participate in an event that will make such a significant impact in people's lives while also being a part of the Super Bowl festivities.

  David Daniels

  Nice, Home, Impact

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• There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.

  Johann Hari

  Long, Trying, Patterns

  "Hurricane Katrina - an environmental 9/11?". JohannHari.com, September 3, 2005.

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• Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and healthy than sick and poor and that it is necessary to care for 'good of Poland" - clap clap, hurricane of clapping.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Sick, Healthy, Democracy

  Blog post, April 12, 2009.

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• Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.

  Judy Blundell

  Night, Islands, Long

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• Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

  Al Gore

  Dirty, Weather, Energy

  "Sandy puts climate change back on the US election agenda" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• In the fall literally everything is broken. Nothing on this planet works. Every body is broken, none of our bodies works perfectly. Every relationship is broken. The weather is broken. I don't have a problem with hurricanes. Nothing works on this planet. This is not heaven, this is Earth and that is why we are to pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Why? Because God's perfect will is done perfectly in heaven. So I am to pray that done here.

  Rick Warren

  Fall, Weather, Broken

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

  Eddie Vedder

  Mean, Tree, Saved

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• Pregnant
  and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that
  gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental
  forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have
  to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that
  you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Law, Earthquakes

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.270, Book Publishing Company

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