funny flood quotes

A flood is a catastrophic event that triggers a specific measure of existential emergency in us relying on how emphatically it disturbs our feeling of predictability. Each issue we experience in life resembles a flood that first tosses us out of our usual range of familiarity and afterward provokes us to transcend our concerns. We trust these quotes on floods will move you to arise successful under all conditions.

Below you will find our collection of funny flood quotes, short flood quotes, and flood recovery quotes, collected from a variety of sources.

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Funny flood Quotes

You love me like water. You’re slipping’ through my fingers such a natural disaster love. Bringing on the flood, the flood. Love me like a flood, a flood. Bring it on.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. W C Fields

If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet the water bill is higher.

One of the scariest things ever is flushing a toilet & seeing the water coming up instead of going down.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. Winston Churchill

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don’t want to put them in a flood plain, because if there’s another flood, you’re going to lose the mobile home. Michael Chertoff

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink. Jarod Kintz

It’s the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market. Gary Miller

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I’m somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

The water is your friend. You don’t have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. Aleksandr Popov

Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Flood recovery quotes

As system virtualization becomes main stream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment. Walter Scott

It’s hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word ‘farm’ or the word ‘rural.’ Jim Hightower

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else’s hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files. Barton Gellman

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. Irwin Redlener

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery. Irwin Redlener

One of my favorite books is ‘The Swiss Family Robinson.’ The reason is, I’m fascinated by the post apocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do? Vint Cerf

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.

Short flood quotes:

Floods are acts of God, but flood losses are largely acts of man. Gilbert F. White

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. Alan Ladd

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. Nicolas De

Great floods have flown from simple sources. William Shakespeare

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor. Emily Dickinson

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Toni Morrison

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided. Two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. Herman Melville

The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely. D. H. Lawrence

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck. Khaled Hosseini

When the flood came the rain fell all the harder, water on water gushing down the unlit streets. In the darkness the gurgles sounding all the louder to the sightless eyes. Angela Abraham

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Socrates

A flood is defined as rising water, and it doesn’t matter why the water is rising. Jeff Albright

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood. Douglas Adams

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

When the flood submerges the whole country, no raindrop may feel responsible. Finally things had lost their weightiness.

Flood quotes in English:

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters. ― Norman Maclean

When the flood submerges the whole country, no raindrop may feel responsible. ( Finally things had lost their weightiness ― Erik Pevernagie

My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children’s fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

Unless you truly feel the pain and sufferings of the people and living beings in flood, famine, poverty, disease, exploitation, and hunger – you cannot grow spiritually, scientifically, politically, and socially.

Some people get killed by water. Some die from dehydration.

For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky.

My focus is not on the flood that surrounds me. Rather, my focus is on the God Who surrounds the flood. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Trials in life help us to grow. They make us better. Challenge yourself to become a better version of yourself as a result of the flood, and to take what you have learned to help others. Focus on tomorrow, not on past mistakes – yours or anyone else’s. ― Dr. Dwan Reed

Wishing is like water caught in a dam. You let a little trickle of it escape and you don’t think it’s much, but in no time the trickle has worn a channel and the edges fall in and the water’s doubled and then you get a flood carrying everything away.

There isn’t enough water in the entire world to do that. Eventually it’ll stop and the sun’ll come out. Every flood stops in the end and goes down. ― Philip Pullman

Since1936, Congress has authorized the Corps of Engineers to construct hundreds of miles of levees, flood walls, and channel improvements and approximately 375 major reservoirs. These remarkable engineering projects today comprise one of the largest single additions to the nation’s physical plant – rivaled only by the highway system.

He liked the darkness, but this was oppressing. It almost flooded his being. He was afraid that even when he returned to the light—or if he returned to the light—he would still feel that darkness in his soul.