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Avalanche Quotes

How one snowflake becomes an avalanche.

Writers often reach for the avalanche as a metaphor for how small choices compound into something unstoppable. Our Begins quotes collection explores similar starting points.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

Quotes by Vernor Vinge

Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.

Quotes by Thomas Frey

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one...

Quotes by John Muir

Amazing Quotes

You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest...

Quotes by Jean Chatzky

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly...

Quotes by George Emil Palade

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

Quotes by Dan Jenkins

The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanche is amazing.

Quotes by Conrad Anker

Because Quotes

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Quotes by Charles Stanley

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer...

Quotes by Brianna Wu

Obamacare arrived also because Republicans failed to persuade the public that we could address the avalanche of problems government had already created by decades of interfering with the health-care market.

Quotes by Ben Sasse

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do people compare change to an avalanche?
An avalanche starting from one small snowflake is a popular way to describe how minor actions can build into massive, unstoppable outcomes.
What does it mean that no snowflake feels responsible?
It's a way of pointing out how individuals within a larger event can avoid personal accountability, even though the whole is made up of many small contributions.
Are avalanches used as metaphors for danger or hope?
Both; some quotes use avalanches to describe real physical risk during mountaineering, while others use the imagery more hopefully, about starting movements or momentum.
What triggers an avalanche, according to these quotes?
Even the largest avalanche is described as beginning with something small, reinforcing the idea that big consequences often start from minor, unnoticed causes.
Where can I find more quotes about small beginnings?
Our Begins quotes collection explores similar ideas, and our Because quotes page looks at cause and effect more broadly.

For more on the thrill and risk behind big undertakings, see our Amazing quotes page, or explore cause and effect further in Because quotes.