Waters Quotes

695 Waters quotes by 507 unique authors

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. — Betty Smith
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know… — Mitch Albom
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be… — Jane Austen
Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going… — Suzanne Collins
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind… — Alfred de Musset
i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me — Helen Dunmore
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there… — Terry Tempest Williams
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
still waters run deep. ~Tabitha — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste… — Jon Krakauer
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of… — Vikram Seth
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know… — Octavio Paz
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. — Kay Ryan
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman
When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take… — Rudyard Kipling
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and… — Oscar Wilde
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further… — Thomas Merton
She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted… — Haruki Murakami
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the… — Khaled Hosseini
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,… — Samuel Beckett
Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after the waters had… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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