This Is Water Quotes

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.

My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

We have passed a lot of water since then.

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up: For now the seventh summer carries you, A wanderer, across the lands and waters.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

Fhairshon had a son, Who married Noah's daughter, And nearly spoil'd to Flood, By trinking up ta water: Which he would have done, I at least believe it, Had ta mixture peen Only half Glenlivet.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

In the desert, the only god is a well.

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

All water is holy water.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.