Quotes About Dust Storms

#1. And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced - mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes - would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

Rinker Buck

#2. Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom of "our stupendous ignorance.

Timothy Egan

#3. Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

B. Wayne Hughes

#4. I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#5. These dust storms ... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.

Will Rogers

#6. Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

Alice Englert

#7. I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

Lyndon B. Johnson

#8. If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.

Frank Perdue

#9. I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

Frank Zappa

#10. Donald was verging on the sad realization that humanity had been thrown to the brink of extinction by insane men in positions of power following one another, each thinking the others knew where they were going.

Hugh Howey

#11. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.

John Roberts

#12. I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to their documentarian. The vibes are really positive, and I feel so lucky.

Lena Dunham

#13. You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.

Max Blumenthal

#14. I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.

Rupert Sanders

#15. Resilience lives next door to success; the two have so much in common they often get together for lunch.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#17. I've been forgotten here. Left alone talking to lightning storms, studying the mysterious patterns the dust of dead people makes as it floats through the last light of day.

Samantha Hunt

#18. Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

Will Ferguson

#19. You're a dad-ass. Like a badass but older.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#20. I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

Simon Cowell

#21. I am now willing to forgive myself ... for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

Iyanla Vanzant