National Disasters Quotes

#1. While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#2. You miss 100 percent of the selfies you never make.

Wayne Gretzky

#3. And what we represent is an ordering to that chaos. Even down to the genes. We are ordering the evolution of

Anthony Doerr

#4. Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Matthew Arnold

#5. A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. I think failure is just a part of life. You can't avoid it in anything. I just accept it as a part of life and something that's going to happen, and you use it to grow. You use it, you learn from it, and you grow from it.

Daniella Alonso

#7. Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?

John Steakley

#8. What least makes a mother is biology.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

George H. W. Bush

#10. Many people are trying to recover a field of vision that is basically human in scale, and extricate themselves from dependence on the obscure forces of a global economy.

Matthew B. Crawford

#11. Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#12. Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#13. The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Russel Honore

#14. You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

Ovadia Yosef

#15. The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.

Geraldo Rivera

#16. Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Robert Jordan

#17. Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#18. For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

Julia McNair Wright