- Nov 07, 2020
Devastation Quotes
These devastation quotes reflect on hurricanes, personal loss, and disaster response, along with a broader cultural tension between glorifying violence and fearing its aftermath.
Devastation tests people in different ways, from hurricanes to personal loss, and these quotes describe how communities respond when the worst finally happens, day after Day.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.
- Cumulative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destruction of vital services like water and electricity.
- Common
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- Nov 07, 2020
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a 9-year-old child, I vividly remember the day Hurricane Andrew touched down in 1992. My family was living in the Upper Florida Keys at the time, and we soon realized its utter devastation to South Florida, with entire blocks leveled by Andrew's vicious winds.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation of their nation.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020