#disasters

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#depressed #disasters #everybody #find #gone

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#accidents #american #automobile #beef #century

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bring #competing #disasters #emergencies #full

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#been #bolivia #brought #capitalist #disasters

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#cannot #disaster #disasters #enough #knowledge

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#great #great secret #incidents #marriage #none

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#continues #disasters #due #economy #face

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#disaster #disasters #down #families #go

We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved once and for all that we were good loving parents. We decided to let him live. "What is painting doing in my best Tupperware bowl?" I yelled. "Well, I needed something lightweight I could carry around with me," he began. "You've been carrying around a brain for year," the boy's father said. ↗

— Sylvia Harney

#home-disasters #humor #parents #sarcasm #home

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#everyone #everything #famine #had #i