Children Quote by Monica Ali

“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to…

— Jim Harrison

“The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly by a…

— Joseph Conrad

“The rats had crept out of their holes to look on, and they remained looking on for hours; soldiers and police often passing between…

— Charles Dickens

“Sometimes, in the evenings, a damp, gritty wind blew in the windows from Park Avenue, just as the rush hour traffic was thinning and…

— Donna Tartt

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”

— David Wroblewski

“It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning to cope…

— Audre Lorde

“The water was tripping over itself, splashing and hypnotizing, and I tried to fix my mind on a chunk of it, like each little…

— Justin Torres

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his…

— Mao Zedong

“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women,…

— Paula Hawkins

“He splashed into the water, his whole body, not with the reverent attitude of prayer, but with a desperate thirst; he buried his head…

— Orson Scott Card

“Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.”

— Jessamyn West

“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov