Lisbon Earthquake Quotes

#1. In 1755 one of the worst natural disasters of the eighteenth century occurred: the Lisbon earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. This Portuguese city was devastated not just by the earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed, and then by fires that raged for days.

Nigel Warburton

#2. Brothers, oh brothers, my days here are done, the Dornishman's taken my life, But what does it matter, for all men must die, and I've tasted the Dornishman's wife!

George R R Martin

#3. She liked him too much for her own

Nicholas Sparks

#4. I always read the Capitol as f - ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It's all happening.

Lenny Kravitz

#5. Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

Oliver Goldsmith

#6. I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.

Marie Helvin

#7. For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?
[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people]

Voltaire

#9. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Millington Synge

#10. I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

Ryan Tedder