Top 387 Hurricane Quotes & Sayings

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

If you go back in history, the most deadly parts of the hurricane has been water. Wind is actually not as deadly as people think it is, although they tend to look at the wind field and look at that as a risk. What has historically killed people in past from hurricanes has been water, storm surge. That Hurricane Hugo's coastal flooding has been the leading cause of death. And that's why we're so adamant about getting people to evacuate. We spend a lot of time and resources to map those areas ahead of time. But it only works if people heed those evacuations and go to higher ground.

It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got?

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.

The eye of the hurricane forms as air rotates up and out of the hurricane and some of the air that's being spun out of the top of the storm sinks back into the center. This keeps the eye of the storm relatively calm and clear.

It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, hundreds of thousands have been left homeless, displaced, and broken.

My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant.

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals - an inability to withstand prolonged blackouts.

Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it's a hurricane.

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.

If a hurricane came here, I would want any relief plan to be fiscally responsible.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.

She's like a hurricane on crystal meth.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

When we had the hurricanes - Hurricane Harvey - we gave 80,000 pillows down there.

With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story. Since Hurricane Katrina, we didn't really have nobody that said, 'I'm gonna tell New Orleans' story, and I'm gonna stick to New Orleans.'

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

Roger “Hurricane” Wilson is the real deal!

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes...that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.

There was a lot of the 'Hamilton' experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane, so the apartment often looked like a hurricane. There were clothes and shoes all over. We were getting more things in than we had room for. We had to figure out how to make space for all the blessings and goodness coming toward us.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'