Flood Quotes

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

– Joseph Smith, Jr.

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.

– Bill Dedman

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

– Ben Bradlee

It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).

– Ben Shapiro

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

– Bill Dedman

There’s no such thing as a 100-year flood.

– Andrew Cuomo

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don’t have to participate.

– Earl Blumenauer

We were able to flood the zone immediately.

– Jonathan Klein

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

– John Wesley Powell

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.

– Rodney Frelinghuysen

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

– Ryan Tedder

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

– Raymond Chandler