Tsunami Quotations | Page 3

I think it would be a massive undertaking to actually have a full-fledged tsunami warning system that would really be effective in many of these places,

And it's different than the tsunami in Asia, where the disaster was half a world away. This time it's so close to home. It's affecting a place that many of us have visited and are familiar with. Some of us know people who live there or have relatives in the region. It's much harder to separate ourselves from this.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

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

These kids are 80 million alone in the U.S. They're like a tidal wave. And we've all been sitting on the beach wondering what kind of day it's going to be and no one noticed the tsunami just off the horizon, one hundred yards high, that's about to sweep us all away. We've got the first generation to grow up digital, and you know it.

When the tsunami came, they had climbed on to a hill. They kept walking, they got lost, and were wandering in the forest, resting, then walking again, ... They traveled from the western side of the island to the eastern side until we saved them.

Some critics argue that a tsunami of hogwash has already rendered the Web useless. I disagree. We are indeed inundated by online noise pollution, but the problem is soluble.

Hurricane Katrina may be second only to the Asian tsunami in the amount of devastation, destruction and human suffering, ... And just as with the tsunami, unprecedented destruction and suffering calls for an outpouring of generous response.

We could never study an ancient tsunami without having some man-made materials surviving from that time. This temple is our link to that.

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.