This Is Water Quotes
In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.
I miss that jellied coconut and thatinvigorating coconut water, Oh, how I miss my sweet Barbados, "Yes, this is your lost daughter
I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55
Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.
...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.
Sally's head plopped into the shallow water and rolled face up. For a while, the changing shades of pinks and oranges reflected across the surface of her dead eyes.
You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.
That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.
You know it’s a real salvation when Baptists use cold water.
I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.
I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface. Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace.
You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of bizarre shape, filled with pulsing tubes and chambers.
There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.
And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play - the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o' their teeth, so it did.
A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.
Water is always working, reorganizing the land.
The ocean is both my mistress and my lover. How else can I explain her salty kiss that is still on my lips.
Traditional angling is a mindset. So, have you set your mind?
Mine is the river.where the love runs deep, that if you fall in, you'll be mine to keep.
A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.
Piddle on me, oh joy.Please, let it flow.Let it slide between your legsLike its rose water.
Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.
Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.
Also, I'll lose half a liter of water per day to breathing until the humidity in the Hab reaches its maximum and water starts condensing on every surface. Then I'll be licking the walls. Yay.
Want some?" he asks, pointing to his dinner.Maybe eating will calm my nerves. "What i
It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.
Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouchFishes pray for them to fly far away Inland lakes toast to the Pelican’s day
