Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. E. Housman

And like a skylit water stood, The bluebells in the azured wood

This is like my water in Devore. It comes right from the mountains.

Philip Johnson

The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.

Peter Agre

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

Peter Benchley

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Paulo Coelho

When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.

Paulo Coelho

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

Marisha Pessl

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm a water person; water heals.

Marianne Wiggins

Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

Max Lucado

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Max Ernst

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Matthew Henry

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Maya Angelou

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

John Owen

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

Nita Ambani

The #lotus comes from the #murkiest #water.. but #grows into the #purest thing.

Nina Fedoroff

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

John Gunther

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

John Friend

Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.

Joan Rivers

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

Joan Rivers

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

Georg Trakl

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

George A. Smith

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Gabrielle Reece

I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big imp

Jimmy Fallon

There's a new Facebook app that will post a final status update for you after you die. That's ridiculous. I don't need someone to change my status when I die. I need them to water my Farmville crops.

John Burroughs

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Joe Baca

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

Jimmy Hoffa

They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.

Louisa May Alcott

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

John Florio

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

John Fowles

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

John F. Kennedy

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

Linda Hogan

Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.