Quotes About San Francisco Earthquake

#1. Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

Kenneth Waltz

#2. Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

Barbara Boxer

#3. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Gordon Sinclair

#4. I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

Charlie Rose

#5. For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

Big Sean

#6. It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts.

Annie Proulx

#7. There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

Bruce Riedel

#8. I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

Andre Holland

#9. I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond - only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

Mohsin Hamid

#10. Knowledge is no burden.

George Herbert

#11. - Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

Jerzy Kosinski

#12. I was married once
in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.

W.C. Fields

#13. I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

David Johansen

#14. I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing.

Brene Brown

#15. It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Seneca The Younger

#16. A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#17. PLEEZ BE QUITE IN THE LIBERY PEPLE R TRYING TO GET HI!

Joe Hill

#18. We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

John Breaux

#19. Life is pointless ... and that is God's greatest gift.

Neale Donald Walsch

#20. The Greek Civil War led to three decades of illegality for the Left, which had to operate under front organisations. The Cold War entrenched in power - backed by the US and Britain - a monarchist, authoritarian right for whom political violence was customary.

Anonymous

#21. Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense.

William Bernhardt