Water Quotes · Page 65

Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

— Bettina Boxall

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is…

— Leonardo Da Vince

“Thinking is just like water, being excessive may lead to intoxication.”

— Godwin

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

— David McCullough

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

— Dave Freudenthal

From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.

— Hakuin Ekaku

I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.

— Chris Long

American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.

— Dennis Miller

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have…

— Shirin Ebadi

How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How…

— Rossiter Johnson

Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out…

— A. D. Patel

I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me dipping my toes in the water. I really…

— Brandon Flowers

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place…

— Rachel Carson

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to…

— Nina Simone

Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If…

— Anonymous

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of…

— Paul Claudel

Ever see a skinny guy on a cold day? You know they tremble like Chihuahuas. Then you see a fat guy in…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed…

— Pablo Neruda

When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by…

— James R Newman

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great…

— Mark Twain

It is time to put up a love-swing! Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they swing between the…

— Kabir

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get…

— Alice Hegan Rice

Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth…

— Ian Somerhalder

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does…

— T. S. Eliot

Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.

— Joan Didion

“For a while, it's just the sound of the water, and then Pen says, "I didn't want him to die.”

— Lauren DeStefano

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

— Jim Yong Kim

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a…

— Susan Orlean

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

— Edward Abbey

They say blood is thicker than water, but I guess the blood is starting to wear thin.

— Anonymous

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

— Joyce Meyer

Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King;

— William Shakespeare

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

— Aesop

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

— Toni Morrison

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

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

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

— David Ricardo

When you're that young, 26 or 27, you think you can walk on water.

— Touker Suleyman