Water Quotes

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen is the more essential property of water.

How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.

The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed.

The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

When my wife drives, there's always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, There's water in the carburetor. I asked her, Where's the car? She said, In a lake.

When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.