Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Johnson

We need to monitor this drought situation very closely.

Next week looks kind of low, ... We're headed into the late summer, pre-Labor Day drought for deals.

Neither drought nor sanctions are at the root of Zimbabwe's decline.

Having year after year of drought really puts a lot of pressure on the whole system. This year it looks like we're over that.

We've been through a snow drought up until March.

Mitch Miller

The real problem is the underlying drought conditions.

Transferring the risk of drought to international financiers makes sense for insurance companies, because it enables them to expand their portfolios.

Extreme weather events, drought and rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people around the world. Negotiators must remember this as they enter these talks.

We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.

We need external assistance. It is not a dry season or a drought period, it's a drought.

With the talent we have here, that's a real, real good possibility that we're going to end that drought in '97 when the Red Wings won their last championship. I'm the man to do it and I think I can back it up.

With all the drought and no snow up there, it is real bad.

Quick recovery from the drought is not likely. Even normal rainfall in May and June can't restore ground water levels.

As the counterpart of Zeus for the Greeks or Jupiter for the Romans, Indra is the god of the thunderstorm, who vanquishes drought and darkness.

Dan Glickman

This drought couldn't have come at a worse time for farmers, ... are receiving the lowest prices they've received for their commodities in 20 or 30 years, especially when you talk about corn, soybeans and wheat.

George Herbert

Drought never brought dearth.

So what they have out there is similar to what we had here in Florida after four hurricanes last year - a lot of fuel for wildfires and drought conditions.

The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.

A worse drought than we have seen recently may loom in our future.

We hit a drought in the second period and Buford started hitting its free throws.

Juwan Howard

We hit a big-time drought in the fourth quarter. We kept our poise. We got some stops and rebounded the shots. In the past we folded.

It's pretty dry down there. It's looking like a drought situation for a big part of the southwestern part of the country.

I hope I don't suffer another drought as long as that one,

It's very dry. Parts of southwest Louisiana are in a drought already.

It took us a long time to get in a drought and it won't take one overnight event to get us out.

Kenneth Cole

It's the worst I've ever seen it. I've talked to a lot of older people and they say it resembles 1956. But at least in that 7-year drought period, they say, they would get a half-inch or a quarter-inch every now and then. But we haven't had nothing.

It's that one scoring drought we always seem to have. It's not one or two possessions. It's five or six. And that's a pretty good drought.

It is the worst drought in a decade.

For the poor people, they might represent the problem in terms of food production, in particular, drought and flooding. And the problem is increasing.

The drought here in southwestern Idaho is over. Even if we just have normal precipitation from this point on we'll finish in very good shape for all our reservoirs and streams.