Water Quotes

Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

The moon shone like herrings in the water.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse.

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together... and shake the forest to its roots.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist.

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.

The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a pony who solves crimes.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.

My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I'm a fan of simple and natural products.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep — The storm is in my soul.

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

There's something very magical about water and what happens to it when it freezes. I don't think there's anything else in the world, perhaps in our universe, that is quite like ice.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.