Year Of The Flood Quotes

#1. But with sea levels rising along the East Coast - a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change - scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen every three to twenty years.

Deborah Blum

#2. You wouldn't poison anyone!" she said. Pilar gave her a straight look. "You never know, dear," she said. "When you might have to.

Margaret Atwood

#3. There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Andrew Cuomo

#4. On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They've been there for a year. I can't resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away.

Gillian Flynn

#5. 2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

Al Gore

#6. Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desire
unleashing in one terrible flood.

Miranda Liasson

#7. A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Earl Blumenauer

#8. She was one of her kind, the most American she would ever be, the last American left in this hundred-year flood.

Matthew Salesses

#9. The ripple of today's lie is tomorrow's wave and next year's flood.

Max Lucado

#10. Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Margaret Atwood

#11. I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

Warren Buffett

#12. How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed.

Margaret Atwood

#13. I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

Ryan Tedder