Quotes for All
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don’t necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts. Gail Collins
Friends are annuals that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a perennial that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them. Erma Bombeck
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the \”little ice age\”…In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. … Read more
The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance. Elmer Kelton
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions – the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our … Read more
Without the rich – without those who accumulated capital – those poor who could exist at all would be very much poorer indeed, scratching a livelihood from marginal lands on which every drought would kill most of the children they would be trying to raise. Friedrich August von Hayek
Global warming is a justice issue. It’s a justice issue because global warming is theft – theft from our own children and grand children, of their right to a livable future. It’s a justice issue, because its victims are, and will be, disproportionately poor and of color, those least able to contend with or to … Read more
I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there’s a … Read more
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Dwight Morrow