I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We’re seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level. – Bill Paxton
God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. – Bob Riley
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don’t want to face. – Bai Ling
Have you read ‘The Grapes of Wrath?’ That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was. – B. Wayne Hughes
NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret ‘repetitive loss list’ that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties. – Bill Dedman
I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it’s to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week. – Chloe Bridges
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot
I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am. – Delta Goodrem
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms – brainstorms, that is. – Miguel Nicolelis
It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you’re nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing – wonderful. – Philip Johnson
Banking is a very treacherous business because you don’t realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. – Paul Watson
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. – Epictetus
It’s easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin’? Not so easy then! – Monica Johnson
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. – David Lloyd George
I’ve been working in Haiti 28 years – I thought I’d sort of seen it… I’ve gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I’d seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong. – Paul Farmer
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection. – Kevin Patterson
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians’ minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world. – Jeff Goodell
America needs to get over it. We can’t control everything. We can’t control the storms. – Russel Honore
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. – Roald Amundsen
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. – Valerie Jarrett
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. – Sheldon Whitehouse