#flood

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #flood




The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.


Ben Bradlee


#flood #flowing #like #potomac

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.


Alan Ladd


#flood #material #nobody #stand #stand up

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.


Mary McAleese


#accident #after #aspect #before #come

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.


Gary Miller


#addressing #affordable #assures #available #businesses

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America.


George Noory


#being #border #china #class #country

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.


Walter Pater


#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!


Robert Peel


#ancient #bill #brings #destroyed #flood

The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.


Richard Reeves


#american #befuddled #cities #east #etc

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.


William Shakespeare


#afloat #bound #current #flood #fortune

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.


Anthony Liccione


#change #flooding #flower #fragile #frost