Water Quotes · Page 134

But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed…

— Leanda de Lisle

If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn't a horse.

— Anonymous

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A.…

— Henry Rollins

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

— Rumi

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in…

— Shashi Tharoor

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.

— Janeane Garofalo

“I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water.”

— Harper Lee

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

— Michael Tolkin

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive.…

— Bodhidharma

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course…

— Tom Kite

Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis.…

— Gza

For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys…

— Lin Brehmer

Dolphins frequently leap above the water surface. One reason for this behaviour could be that, when travelling longer distances, jumping can save…

— Thomas Metzinger

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest…

— Peter O'Toole

Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower…

— Kat Graham

Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and…

— Rick Riordan

When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding…

— Peter Singer

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great…

— John Green

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of…

— Matt Damon

It's not a panacea: there are problems in the world that technology can't fix. You can't fix water shortages. You can't storm…

— Jared Cohen

The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't…

— George M. Whitesides

God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has…

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,…

— Wendell Berry

Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that…

— Philip Kapleau

The grass is not greener on the other side, you just have to water your own and care it more.

— Anonymous

“I am sure of this: I am not crying. It is just that stupid drops of water that comes out of my…

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

— Ovid

If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

— Chuck D

“...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.”

— Lauren Slater

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

— Geshe Sonam

A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.

— Mark Kurlansky

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

— Francis of Assisi

I grew up with very little. I remember vividly using buckets of water to shower.

— Dania Ramirez

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.

— Kate Brown

“Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity.”

— Euginia Herlihy

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

— John Keats

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl…

— Seungsahn

Friends are family ONLY your related to them by HEART not by BLOOD.

— Robert Campbell

I have fruit juices, cucumber juice and coconut water to cool myself in the hot weather.

— Lara Dutta

Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.

— Roy Fuller