Quotes About Flood

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

You know, it never occurred to me until afterwards that everybody in these books is a refugee. But everyone is running from drought or flood or civil war. I do think a lot about them. You know, not far from here is a road where refugees of all kinds line the roads, and people go there to pick up a plumber or carpenter or something. This isn't an official thing, you know, but there they are. A friend of mine goes there when she wants anything. They are all very skilled people.

There are certain rivers which can be linked, which will be beneficial especially for flood mitigation... It will be very useful process, but all rivers in India are not fit to be linked.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

Like the raindrops falling outside, one by one they fill the gaps until the memories pool together and flood through me.

By removing at-risk structures and taking other steps to mitigate the impacts of flooding, we make our communities safer and avoid repetitive repair costs to roads, bridges, and other public infrastructure.

The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.

High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton. If you have a hard time making out the lyrics, you're not alone—even Son House (who, along with Howlin' Wolf, was influenced by Patton)

Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood,

Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

She had been told of a thing that sounded like a locomotive. And that thing was a flood.

The "back waters" she sings of are old riverbeds that were deliberately flooded to take pressure off the main channel's levees. "Back water blues done call me to pack my things and go,

Louisiana 1927

When the Levee Breaks," by Memphis Minnie. Memphis Minnie wrote this with her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy; it was later covered by Led Zepplin.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity.

Wishing is like water caught in a dam. You let a little trickle of it escape and you don't think it's much, but in no time the trickle has worn a channel and the edges fall in and the water's doubled and then you get a flood carrying everything away.

The village itself sat ridiculously on top of a high knoll as if, one day in its distant history, it had fled there to escape a flood.

Look up and see the wind, For we be ready to sail. Noah's Flood, a miracle play.

White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

Great Johnstown Flood, which killed more than 2,300 people, 300 of them suffering the horrible irony of dying in fires started by the water.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

Suppose it never stops? she whispered. The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood. It feels as if it's going on forever. There isn't enough water in all the world to do that. Eventually it'll stop and the sun'll come out. Every flood stops in the end and goes down.

The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no match for the happenstance that seems of late only to promise death, mayhem, poverty, flood. And here you are, having spent all that time protecting your home from the oncoming elements only to find that it has been shored up with crackers.

In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to direct it carefully along each inch of its path.