Disasters Quotes

Most popular disasters quotes

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

crisis

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

challenges

Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.
Disaster appears, to crush
one man now, but afterward another. - Euripides quote.
Disaster appears, to crush
one man now, but afterward another.
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it. - Homer quote.
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same. - Rudyard Kipling quote.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same.
Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.
Noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote.
Noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger.
Disaster is Virtue's opportunity. - Seneca quote.
Disaster is Virtue's opportunity.
Science fiction films are not about science.  They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. - Susan Sontag quote.
Science fiction films are not about science.  They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

science fiction

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma.  When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

earth

The people of the United States are no longer strangers to that dreaded aerial monster, the Tornado.
In a crescendo the wind rushes through the branches, the great dance begins, the cyclone is in full swing.  Olympus joins in the fray; Jupiter sends us his thunderbolts, the Titans roll down rocks; the river flows. - Paul Gauguin quote.
In a crescendo the wind rushes through the branches, the great dance begins, the cyclone is in full swing.  Olympus joins in the fray; Jupiter sends us his thunderbolts, the Titans roll down rocks; the river flows.
Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. - Charles Kuralt quote.
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.