Water Quotes - page 2

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. (Erma Bombeck)
Modern poets put a lot of water into their ink. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. View quote
Toni Morrison
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. View quote
Aldous Huxley
There is no small pleasure in pure water. View quote
Ovid
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. View quote
Dennis Rodman
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. View quote
Carl Reiner
I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. View quote
Thomas Shadwell
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. (Ambrose Bierce)
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. View quote
Cyril Connolly
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. View quote
W. C. Fields
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. View quote
W. C. Fields
Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. View quote
John Muir
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. View quote
William Blake
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. View quote
Anatole France
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. (Erma Bombeck)
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. View quote
Wangari Maathai
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. View quote
Lucretius
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then w. View quote
Dan Quayle