(147 quotes found)
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: / And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”
Bible
“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”
Miyamoto Musashi
“God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain.”
Stevie Nicks
“We don't suggest that because San Francisco citizens live on top of an earthquake fault that they should be moved, ... The question of whether New Orleans should be rebuilt, one of the great cities of this country, is not really a question in my mind.”
John Breaux
“There never seems to be a sign. Caution, yield, stop death is nigh. How many woke that portentous day knowing it would end in the grave. We must all realize that the breath we take could finalize our living days. All should live as if the end is an expected welcomed friend.”
Shane Pendley
“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“The earthquake was approximately 50 kilometers or 30 miles below the earth's surface.”
Waverly Person
“I was a little skeptical coming here. I'm from California. We do earthquakes, no Katrina.”
Omarion
