Superstorm Sandy Quotes:

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

- Barack Obama

topic: Children, Climate, Sake, Superstorm Sandy, Wildfires

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

- Chris Pratt

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sea, Two, Tree, Bonsai, Superstorm Sandy

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

- Uma Thurman

topic: Eye, Blue, Average, Superstorm Sandy, Sandy

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

- Hope Davis

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Summer, Beach, New York, Superstorm Sandy, Barbecue

What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

- Al Gore

topic: Fire, Years, Civilization, Superstorm Sandy

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

- Russel Honore

source: "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

topic: Apples, Heartache, Hitting, Superstorm Sandy

And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

- Naomi Klein

source: Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

topic: Home, Weather, Events, Coastline, Superstorm Sandy

There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in the west, 70 million dollars a day are being spent in fighting fires that have clearly been exacerbated by drought and climate change. So, people have pointed out the true dollars and cents cost of inaction on climate change.

- Naomi Oreskes

source: Source: to.pbs.org

topic: Real, Fighting, Fire, Superstorm Sandy