Waters Quotes
695 Waters quotes by 507 unique authors
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes…
— Mary Oliver
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Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There was no lifeboat here in these deep, killing waters, not even a lighthouse, marking the way back to shore with its soft amber promise.…
— Karen Marie Moning
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In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
— Michael Ondaatje
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I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each…
— Luke Davies
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There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy.…
— John Green
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
— Ann Voskamp
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I have an Augustus Waters fetish.
— John Green
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I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near…
— Sylvia Plath
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The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
— John Green
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The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow…
— Daniel Handler
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Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove…
— John Green
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
— Edwidge Danticat
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Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank,…
— John Green
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We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He…
— John Green
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In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for…
— Arthur Golden
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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and…
— Thomas Hardy
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Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause
— John Green
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I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I…
— Edwidge Danticat
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The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with…
— Virginia Woolf
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We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,…
— Pat Conroy
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[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters.…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Waters Quotes
507 authors contributed a total of 695 Waters Quotes, led by these top contributors: