Top 285 Earthquake Quotes & Sayings

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

Language is such a powerful thing. After the earthquake, I went to Haiti and people were talking about how [they] described this feeling of going through an earthquake. People really didn't have the vocabulary - before we had hurricanes. I'd talk with people and they'd say, "We have to name it; it has to have a name."

People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

??If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing.

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

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

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

Part of the problem when I was doing 'How I Learned to Drive' is I would see my kids one night a week for six months, and that was just too hard. We moved to Philadelphia after we lost our house in the earthquake, the '94 Northridge earthquake.

Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing anything set in Haiti now, whether fiction or nonfiction, always in the back of my mind is how people, including some of my own family members, have been affected not just by history and by the present but also by the earthquake.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you're not getting it.

People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.

When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

I'd like to make a sincere lament for the victims of Sichuan earthquake. I will pray for them with all of my heart.

All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.

Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something.

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.