Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Easley

These floods are going to be worse than anticipated yesterday.

Inez Fung

It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? We're still not good at predicting floods or droughts, but we hope that's just one out of many things our model can help us predict.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Susan Wilson

During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.

Pat Buchanan

The Mississippi River is like immigration--it's enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what's happened here.

Gordon Sinclair

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

Ed Silliere

Some of those refineries in Texas, they're at sea level. It's a table top, it floods every easily.

Danielle Brown

We've had floods before, ... but nothing like this where houses sat in water for two, three weeks.

Robert Stephens

I was in there trying to hook up a phone. It happened real fast, but yet in slow motion.

Erin Brocka

Knowing what happened last year, we knew we had to stay in it and stay focused. Last year we were in about the same situation and we lost it.

Bill Parcells

I actually just reiterated that to them this morning in light of what happened to Hamlin,

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He did have a run-in with his coach, and that's something that's unfortunate. It isn't like that's the first time that's happened to anybody.

Kurt Clark

He just happened to walk through there and I knew something wasn't right.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Julian Wright

He referred to what happened here before, two years ago. We just wanted to win another big-league game.

Phil Garner

He's a second-time, 20-game winner and you don't hear much about it. If it happened with somebody else, it would be all over the place, but Roy is not a self-promoter.

Susan Jackson

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Rob Brown

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Richard Dawkins

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Rick Riordan

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Reinhold Messner

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?