86 Tsunami Quotes

Following is our list of tsunami quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about tidal waves.

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Famous Tsunami Quotes

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear. — Bethany Hamilton

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims. — Jon Porter

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. — Jim Wallis

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. - Mitch Albom

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. — Mitch Albom

Listen to the sound of waves within you. - Rumi

Listen to the sound of waves within you. — Rumi

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. — Ernest Shackleton

Rarely is there only one wave, or more colloquially when it rains, it pours. — Icelandic Proverbs

The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. — Terry Pratchett

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean. — Morrie Schwartz

Quickly fetch the water during the rising tide. — Thai Proverbs

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. - Gordon Brown

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. — Gordon Brown

The ocean is a mighty harmonist. — William Wordsworth

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote. — Frida Kahlo

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. — Bill Maher

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Short Tsunami Quotes

  • The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness — Kengo Kuma
  • The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow. — Sandra Cisneros
  • A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is — George Alagiah
  • Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success — Robin Sharma
  • Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is threatening their very families. — John Kasich
  • What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami. — Gilbert Gottfried
  • Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.' — Bill Maher
  • People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages. — Hayao Miyazaki
  • Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami. — Sylvia Day
  • Either God is responsible for the tsunami, or God is not in control. — Tom Honey

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Japan Tsunami Quotes

With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer. — Sayings

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims. — Masaharu Morimoto

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. — Dan Rather

Did you know that the word "tsunami," which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past. — Junichiro Koizumi

After the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show our support for the Japanese people. — Jamie Dimon

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert. — Naoto Kan

Tidal Waves Quotes

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. — Russell Crowe

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme — Seamus Heaney

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do. — Dan Brown

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever. — John Steinbeck

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence. — Boy George

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination. — David Salle

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave. — Mark Shuttleworth

The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games. — Tom Robbins

The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave. — Frederick Lenz

With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love. — Cynthia Heimel

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More Tsunami Quotes

We think we have a responsibility. And I think it's important for all of us in the Western world to realize that we've all been blessed a lot and if you go to these parts they don't have a lot, even before the tsunami. — Kevin Rollins

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid to those suffering from hunger and/or malnutrition worldwide. — Cat Cora

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing. — Paul Ryan

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. — Terry Gilliam

In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle. — Dalai Lama

Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes! — Fred Phelps

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. — Zygmunt Bauman

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief. — Alan Greenspan

These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals. — Kofi Annan

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it. — Ruby Wax

It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive. — Mark Levin

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out. — Paul Walker

With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased. — Noam Chomsky

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. — Colin Farrell

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players. — John Terry

We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack, and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith. — Russell M. Nelson

If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are. — Lloyd Blankfein

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now. — Colin Farrell

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries. — Nicholas D. Kristof

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami. — Connie Sellecca

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world. — Arun Manilal Gandhi

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami. — David Nabarro

I hope you are looking forward to the tsunami of industrial effluent which is coming your way in the first quarter of the new year. You will not be able to avoid it, unless you are Helen Keller. One way or another, Wills and Kate are going to get you. — Rod Liddle

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study. — Ovadia Yosef

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. — Anne M. Mulcahy

I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it. — Joan Didion

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake. — Nicholas D. Kristof

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China. — Abby Sunderland

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more — Bill Vaughan

We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again. — Nathan Wolfe

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle. — Jo Nesbo

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami. — Charlie Sheen

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