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Water Quotes by William Faulkner
- God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have…
- She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he…
- And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long…
- Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave…
- I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the…
- It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring…
- When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with…
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