Quotes About Inundation

Their arrival was like an attack of locusts in a rice field, fast and uncontrollable.

diluvian adj. another term for DILUVIAL.

There's basically filth everywhere, and there's no way to escape it.

this will, in turn, trigger a variety of world-altering events, including the disappearance of most remaining glaciers, the inundation of low-lying islands and coastal cities, and the melting of the Arctic ice cap.

But here, under the wide blue skies, the wind was the flood. Everyone drowned in it.

We had a strong desire to make a trip up the Yazoo and the Sunflower—an interesting region at any time, but additionally interesting at this time, because up there the great inundation was still to be seen in force—but we were nearly sure to have to wait a day or more for a New Orleans boat on our return; so we were obliged to give up the project.

It's everywhere. It's right on top of us. It coils around us like a snake. We're all inside it. It's already swallowed us whole.

According to a lot of people I am in everything and they're sick of the sight of me.

Cuando llovía me entraba el agua hasta el alma

I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly. I wanted to stop my ears and my eyes and my mouth with it.

El invierno del trópico es época primaveral. Lo que se planta, crece aceleradamente. Las semillas excitadas por el repique de la lluvia constante sobre la tierra se ablandan y germinan bebiendo de las correntadas los nutrientes de la vegetación que el viento del verano depositó en la superficie y tornó en abono. Managua es una ciudad que se inunda en el invierno".

I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, — that were a bath and a medicine.

I felt as though someone had snuck in and packed my head with beach sand, even including the bottle caps and cigarette butts.

We are drowning in information.

My inbox is the enemy.

Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail