Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thales

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

Terry Pratchett

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

Margaret Mead

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

Melinda Gates

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

Melinda Gates

Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.

Melissa Etheridge

Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive.

Michael Ondaatje

In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

Water finds the easiest path down a mountain.

Ray Bradbury

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....

Henry Adams

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Henry Adams

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

Henry Hazlitt

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Henry David Thoreau

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Matsuo Basho

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Pablo Neruda

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

Plautus

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Philip Larkin

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

Martin Rees

Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.

John Updike

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

John Ray

Good words cool more than cold water.

James Joyce

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

James Richardson

Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.

James Richardson

Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.

James Richardson

Water deepens where it has to wait.

Laurence Sterne

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

Liam Payne

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Johnny Weissmuller

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Louis MacNeice

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

Nick Flynn

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Mircea Eliade

Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

Miranda July

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.