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Water Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
- Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
- It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
- Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a…
- Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,…
- Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
- Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your…
- A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
- The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
- Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.
- Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall,…
- You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
- His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again,…
- Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by…
- The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
More Water Quotes
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams