Flood Quotes

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.

You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

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 have to know, when there is a fire in the kitchen, when to flood that fire.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

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

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

To gain unshakable faith in Jesus Christ is to flood your life with brilliant light.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.

Noah had 120 years to warn humanity of the flood. We have only 4-5 years until global warming is irreversible

Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.

If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.