This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good… — Nancy Banks-Smith Copy Share Image
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water,… — Elizabeth Hay Copy Share Image
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The handless clock trying to hold the hour of death, salt in the last mouthful of water. The windows opaque with silence,… — Warren Heiti Copy Share Image
This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization,… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality,… — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
Some people are like water thy change their shape acoording to sitution …so b a fire and heat them and change them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
If you find yourself feeling like a fish out of water, by all means find a new river to swim in. But… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
“ The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or… — Federico Chini Copy Share Image
Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow… — Wayne Allard Copy Share Image
A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
“Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt,… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an… — Willy Ley Copy Share Image