Quotes having the keyword Flood
Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.
by Jonathan Frid (Actor, Canadian , born in 1924) keywords: been, began, caught, dark, flood, four, go, had, jobs, mail, phenomenon, role, shadows, started, stopped, then, these, thought, three, twice, weeks , would One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.
by Derek Jacobi (Actor, British , born in 1938) keywords: cold, damp, episodes, flood, hoses, hours, last, muddy, pleasant, rain, till, under, were , working Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
by Alan Ladd (Actor, American , born in 1913) keywords: enough, flood, material, nobody, stand, strong, under, up , weak 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.
by Gary Miller (Politician, American , born in 1948) keywords: access, addressing, affordable, assures, available, businesses, country, due, families, flood, floods, incurred, insurance, losses, market, national, open, program, throughout, tool, valuable , would 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.
by Gary Miller (Politician, American , born in 1948) keywords: billion, communities, companies, covering, flood, four, insurance, million, more, national, participate, policies, program, sell, service, than, today , total Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
by Bob Ney (Politician, American , born in 1954) keywords: across, adopt, after, agreed, building, business, codes, communities, country, coverage, dangers, disaster, federal, flood, government, homeowners, insurance, mitigate, owners, pay, premiums , provide At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
by Walter Pater (Critic, English , born in 1839) keywords: action, bury, calling, experience, external, first, flood, forms, importunate, objects, ourselves, out, pressing, reality, seems, sharp, sight, thousand, under, upon , us The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
by Karl Pearson (Mathematician, British , born in 1857) keywords: along, apparently, carried, dealing, description, endless, flood, formal, his, importance, mathematician, may, our, physical, purely, reach, results, still, symbols, truths , universe The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
by Robert Peel (Leader, English , born in 1778) keywords: act, ancient, bill, brings, destroyed, flood, government, opinion, public, rapid, reform, turbulent, uncertain, upon , violence We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
by Charles Rangel (Politician, American , born in 1930) keywords: again, answers, assure, citizens, event, flood, give, happen, never, new, orleans, our, owe, place, them, took, tragedies, truthful, victims, why , will The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
by Richard Reeves (Writer , American) keywords: america, american, befuddled, cities, east, etc, europe, explain, flames, flood, news, officials, showing, shown, still, terrorism, trying, underwater, war, west, why , winning There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
by William Shakespeare (Dramatist, English , born in 1970) keywords: affairs, afloat, bound, current, flood, fortune, full, leads, life, lose, men, miseries, must, now, omitted, our, sea, serves, shallows, such, take, taken, their, tide, ventures, voyage , which 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.
by John Shimkus (Politician, American , born in 1958) keywords: declares, destroy, destroyed, earth, end, flood, god, man, only, over, time , will The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
by Robert Trout (Journalist, American , born in 1909) keywords: aspect, british, china, crimes, destruction, empire, flood, india, most, opium, seizure, takeover, ugly , use
