Water Quotes

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

I didn't know people had that much water in them!

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

Maybe there wasn't much hot water in the showers. I'm not sure.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.