Water Quotes - page 5

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. (Rabindranath Tagore)
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. View quote
Christopher Columbus
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Bluid is thicker than water. View quote
Walter Scott
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. View quote
Aldous Huxley
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. View quote
Christopher Morley
Muddy water, let stand becomes clear. View quote
Laozi
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. View quote
John Burroughs
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. (Colum McCann)
A man may well bring a horse to the water, But he cannot make him drinke without he will. View quote
John Heywood
Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water. View quote
Mark Cuban
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. View quote
Stan Laurel
You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood. View quote
Tilman J. Fertitta
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty. View quote
Jose Bergamin
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. (Loren Eiseley)
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea. View quote
John C. Reilly
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth, but not quite. View quote
John C. Reilly
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. View quote
Esther Williams
It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. View quote
Esther Williams