Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Warren

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

Rick Riordan

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Mary Morrissey

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.

Pindar

The noblest of the elements is water

Pindar

Water is the best of all things.

Rachel Caine

Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

Rachel Caine

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

Paulo Coelho

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Plutarch

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

Plutarch

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Pia Zadora

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

Philip Yancey

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Vernon Howard

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

Vernon Howard

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Robert Frost

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

Robert Bly

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

Rita Rudner

I'm going to start water skiing someday...as soon as I can separate it from being dragged by a boat.

Thomas Huxley

We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Sandra Cisneros

The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."

Robin McKinley

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

Robert Towne

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Sarah McLachlan

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

Sara Teasdale

But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

Robert Greene

Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack

Richard Leakey

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Richard Rohr

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.