Water Quotes - page 3

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. View quote
Emily Brontë
Here lies one whose name was writ in water. View quote
John Keats
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope. View quote
Mary Pope Osborne
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile. View quote
Walter Chrysler
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. View quote
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. View quote
Louis L'Amour
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory. View quote
Truman Capote
Work at the same time upon water, sky, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. (Camille Pissarro)
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. View quote
Fernand Léger
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. View quote
W. H. Auden
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it till I am known, and do not want it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible. (Joseph Addison)
The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared. View quote
Lily Tomlin
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. View quote
Kate Chopin
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you? View quote
Jodi Picoult
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. View quote
Amy Tan