Famous Quotes & Sayings

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Rick Perry

Natural disasters recognize no state boundaries, and neither should FEMA, ... Texas is willing to work and do our part, but FEMA has to sit down and come up with a long-term, thoughtful plan.

Hun Sen

I don't know why we can stop the war but we can't stop natural disasters, these disasters make the people poorer and poorer,

Eduardo Galeano

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

Donald Williams

Hurricanes and disasters should not be made worse by profiteering,

I think it's very important that we support this request. Not too many disasters happen in this country.

He did very well with disasters in the past and it always helped him, his presidency and his popularity,

Rusty Schweickart

There are always natural disasters and it always seems as though the preparation is somewhat less than adequate. But we have had a series of quite substantial ones here in the last year.

Jim Furyk

You can make a lot of birdies, but there are a lot of disasters waiting to happen.

Brad Sherman

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Kofi Annan

The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,

We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.

The response is stronger than expected, given the number of disasters in the world happening simultaneously.

The big funds are very well managed and very well diversified. They might fall as hard as the S&P, but there aren't a lot of big disasters there.

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

How many disasters do we need to unite humanity

Because most of these are monthly investments and in the past were smaller deployments, we haven't heard about the big disasters yet. The larger implementations will be the ones to watch.

George H. W. Bush

The world saw this tidal wave of disasters sent upon the Gulf Coast, and we can see a tidal wave of compassion.

Jane Porter

This has hit the school really hard. We have three Katrina disasters here in our school.

The disasters around the world have had an effect on (the availability) of materials. Everybody doing construction is seeing that.