Water Quotes - page 4

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. (Christina Rossetti)
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
A great ship asks deep water. View quote
George Herbert
The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water. View quote
Art Buchwald
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. View quote
W. C. Fields
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. View quote
W. C. Fields
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. View quote
David Suzuki
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. (Francis Bacon)
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty! View quote
John Muir
we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. View quote
Doris Lessing
In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty. View quote
Bob Marley
I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Dip him in the river who loves water. View quote
William Blake
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. View quote
William Blake
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. View quote
Plutarch
water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. View quote
Vitruvius
From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy. (Vitruvius)
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. View quote
Dan Quayle
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. View quote
Victor Hugo
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues We write in water. View quote
William Shakespeare