This Is Water Quotes

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.

But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

In medicine, uncertainty is the water we swim in.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

No one wants your worries...not even you. Anxiety comes at a high cost. Let Jesus lead you beside still waters.

There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

I think water’s, like, a really important thing.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles