Earthquake Quotations

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished earth.
-Kuralt, Charles
In Sunday Morning, CBS T V, 23 Jan

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
-Stallone, Sylvester
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

“I was married once -- in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.”
W. C. Fields quotes (American Comic and Actor, 1880-1946)

“I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.”
Alyssa Milano quotes (American Actress. b.1972 Brooklyn, New York, USA)

“And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.”
Bible quotes

“And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.”
Bible quotes