Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane

Edward Burtynsky

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

Edie Brickell

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

John F. Kennedy

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Jonathan Horton

I eat very clean foods, healthy foods and drink a lot of water.

Joyce Carol Oates

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Russell Crowe

When you're heading into Anzac cove you are going into this battle situation staring into the sun. So, any movement in that water, any glint is going to be seen for miles away. Even in the first rays of dawn, there's nowhere to hide.

Ron Atkinson

...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

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.