Water Quotes · Page 146

“Sky in our lungs, land beneath our feet, fire in our souls, and water in our blood.”

— Emily R. King

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

— Janet Frame

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

Knowledge is the only water which makes one thirsty when it is drunk.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.

— James T. Williams II

“Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.”

— Malayan Proverb

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

— Ed Begley, Jr

It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.

— William H. Whyte

And by reducing carbon pollution in our atmosphere, we are protecting our air, water, mountains, forests, deserts, valleys, coasts and rivers -…

— Ted Wheeler

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that…

— Johannes Brahms

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to…

— David Suzuki

“Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without…

— Jim George

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Warm water travels From my hair down to my toes Like your fingers caressing Me. Now I know how lonely Water must…

— Ronald Baytan

“I don’t shower because water is the most corrosive element. Ever seen what it does to rock? I want a chiseled body,…

— Jarod Kintz

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting…

— John Green

A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real - and here's why…

— Katharine Hayhoe

Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her…

— Lauren Oliver

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something…

— Bede Griffiths

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of…

— William Kamkwamba

We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams…

— Tikhon of Zadonsk

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in…

— Timothy Egan

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not…

— John Keats

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are…

— Joseph Campbell

“We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.”

— John Culkin

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

— Octavio Paz

“Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.

— Anonymous

“So, blood is thicker than water. What's your point? You need the water to wash away the evidence.”

— Shaun Adams

The state does not run the water system in the city of Jackson. Perhaps we should.

— Tate Reeves

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

— Barbara Sher

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a…

— Jon Foreman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

— Dennis Rodman

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

— Barry Goldwater

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water…

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Mircea Eliade

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

— Maya Angelou

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Robert Frost