Water Quotes

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Good words cool more than cold water.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

It's important to stay hydrated - first thing I do in the morning is stretch and drink water.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.