Drowned Quotations

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.'

Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.

Like in those cancer villages, a group of old ladies kneeling down in front of me, you know, holding a bottle of polluted water and hoping that they would get help, this is the voice that got drowned in this complex, globalized supply chain system.

Simply put, Mr. Holt took an unnecessary risk and drowned in rough water off Cheviot Beach,

Since there are no candidates, it's very quiet, and unusual voices get heard when they might have otherwise been drowned out.

One of the two suspicions is that there was an indirect lightning strike which may have caused the zebra to go into the moat and drown. The other is she had a preexisting medical condition causing problems with her throat and lungs, causing breathing problems, and she may have gone into the moat and drowned as a result.

One man down the road said he tried desperately to get his wife into the attic. The man got in the attic, but his wife fell back down and drowned right there in front of him.

One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.

Ned was trying to get (the boys off him). I jumped in at the last moment as they were backing off and pushed them off, ... I physically lifted (Ned) out of the water and carried him out. He would have drowned if I hadn't been there. He was unconscious and under the water.

For us, it was business as usual; we really never stopped working. One of the guys in the band lost his house. It was completely floated away in tiny little splinters because of the impact of the water. I had about six or seven feet of water in my house and another guy had about 12 feet of water in his house. There are things we'd been saving for years and years. We lost everything materially. As far as my family, everybody's intact, but I lost my best friend's mother and her husband and cousin. They drowned in their house. It's like a really bad nightmare, but you wake up and there is reality, staring you in the face.

It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away, ... Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city... to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable.

I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It's a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good than has ever been done.

I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it's incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we've experienced a kind of joy and vision and see an opportunity to do a greater good than we've ever done before.

methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.

We have always welcomed a regular dialogue with Congress. We agree that progress is being made by both the military and civilians in Iraq. The progress is extraordinary and should not be drowned out by partisan politics in Washington.

We did that all year at every home game. The band came to the championship game and the Dee Events Center was trying to play music and they drowned them out.

Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast: Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Center placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?

We have been abandoned by our own country. And he said, 'Yeah, mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night.

What killed people during the outbreak in 1918 was not a weak immune system. An over-response from their own immune system known at ARDS killed them. They drowned in their own fluid.

Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.

Being two plays away is like being the guy who drowned three feet from the dock. Our kids feel like we're better, an improved football team. But we have to get a win to enjoy that.

Flocks of guinea fowl in our area have very few chicks. This shows we have had too much rain. The chicks have drowned in the nests on the ground.

Features of the night sky that make it beautiful are really drowned out.

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'

The storm didn't take her, God took her, ... We could've just drowned in that boat because it was just full of water. But it wasn't for us to do that. He wanted her somewhere stable so he could bring her home and that's what he did.

Seeing the swans swimming, the herons wanted to do it too. But the poor herons drowned and died, and floated with their heads down and their feet up.

This is no time for bowing and scraping. This is no time for buck dancing and genuflecting. Our people are dying in Iraq, are being drowned in New Orleans, and you're going to sit around scared?

About 30 people were able to swim across to the river bank but at least 40 to 45 people are feared drowned

It's a human safety issue as much as an animal issue. People drowned because they wouldn't leave their pets.

It's gasoline and propane and oil and sewage, dogs and cats and people and rats and nutria. The guys have seen dogs that have drowned that are still on a leash in the back yard, several cars with bodies in them and floating bodies.

It's fulfilling all the wishes of those who believe in a clash of civilizations and so far moderate voices have been drowned out.

Then when they displeased Us, We inflicted a retribution on them, so We drowned them all together, / And We made them a precedent and example to the later generations.

A child may have drowned in a lake, but the parents may have been high.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long / Have done my credit in this World much wrong: / Have drowned my Honour in a Shallow Cup / And sold my Reputation for a Song.

If love were an ocean I'd have drowned twice.

If you are talking about people who have drowned or if they have died of trauma, then there is much less likelihood that they might serve as a source of contamination.

In this new environment, child abuse cases will just be drowned in the general sea of crime. Even now, only 40 percent of officers at these units are trained, but at least they are motivated and have a specific interest.

I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have.

Because you have drowned others, you were drowned

If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.

The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments.

And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.

And everyone, everyone ? everyone ? knew what they were. They knew someone had drowned there. Even though the messages were faded and worn away, everyone knew what the posts were.