Quotes about water
water buckets
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. John Updike
water cold good-words
Good words cool more than cold water. John Ray
water jesus-christ world
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 Joyce
water different drink
Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink. James Richardson
water pieces tiny
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
water waiting
Water deepens where it has to wait.
water world receiving
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. Laurence Sterne
water healthy too-much
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. Liam Payne
water mind calm
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
water history development
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.
water milk paper
Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water. Henry Hazlitt
water paddling canoeing
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. Henry David Thoreau
water wood
And like a skylit water stood, The bluebells in the azured wood A. E. Housman
water
This is like my water in Devore. It comes right from the mountains.
water long shooting
I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick. Johnny Weissmuller
water giving sentimental
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 Louis MacNeice
water oath
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. Sophocles
water mouths sticks
If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water. Ray Kroc
water agitation public-opinion
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure. Thomas Jefferson
water justice political
[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice. Robert Hass
water lasts changed
I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane Rick Riordan
water roaring locks
The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. Swami Vivekananda
water body mouths
He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge. Stephen King
water dark-tower gunslinger
There will be water if God wills it.
water too-late frogs
If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees. Stephenie Meyer
water sometimes embrace
We can't fear change...we must embrace it. Sometimes you have to walk on water. Tim Storey
water chicago sound
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well. Tim Cahill
water england needs
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. William Wordsworth
water dutch cleaning
The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. Sarah Palin
water acting actors
... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius. Sarah Bernhardt
water flow body
I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions. Sappho
water baptism grace
If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there. Saint Basil
water religion shapes
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle. Richard Dawkins