Water Quotes · Page 101

“I hate when people say primitive people didn’t even have running water. What do they call rivers?”

— Jarod Kintz

“Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.”

— Anthony Doerr

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

— Steve Jobs

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every…

— Andrea Barrett

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

— George Orwell

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

— Shaun Adams

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

— Sarah Doudney

Basically I'd been going blind very slowly since I was born and so didn't even really notice it happening. Like the frog…

— Chris McCausland

A lot of water and air signs that are just like, trying to have a lowkey conversation. Fire sign enters the room…

— Michelle Zauner

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps…

— Annie Proulx

I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until…

— Joshua

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love…

— Ken Salazar

“Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure…

— Chris Kuzneski

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him…

— Joseph Addison

Since reading Cameron Diaz's 'The Body Book', I follow her routine of drinking a pint of water first thing. It rehydrates and…

— Gemma Atkinson

I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to…

— Ann Voskamp

Sweat doesn't fall off you. The water just accumulates until it gets too big and agitated and falls off like a sphere…

— Sunita Williams

I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me…

— Beyonce Knowles

In the country, our best years economically were from the 1940s into the 1970s, when we had the best public works -…

— Paul Solman

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the…

— Ambrose Bierce

There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back…

— Howard Frank Mosher

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not…

— Gloria Steinem

In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried…

— Mark Nepo

I try to drink a good 3 or 4 liters of water a day and that makes such a big difference in my skin.

— Brandi Cyrus

The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.

— Vitor Belfort

As a mom, spending quality time on the water with my family is a simple and relaxing way to unplug.

— Jessica Mendoza

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

— Eyvind Kang

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

— St. Jerome

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

— Cal Thomas

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

— Barry Goldwater

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

— Suzanne Somers

“Beer is man's drink. Water is God's drink. Wine is everyone's drink. Whiskey is the Devil's soup.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I think my favorite movie is 'Joe Versus the Volcano' - or maybe 'Multiple Maniacs' by John Waters.

— Justin Kirk

“I told Papa of whole cities under water, streets filled with drifting seaweed and glittering fish”

— Mette Jakobsen

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

— Don McCullin

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

— Olive Ann Burns

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

— Erin Brockovich

Scottish fans are such a warm crowd. I don't know what it is, there must be something in the water.

— Jack Savoretti