Water Quotes

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine

What people don't understand is like when water gets polluted, it's an entire aquifer. There's a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don't see, therefore we don't relate.

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

"Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea".

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.

The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.

Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.