300 Quotes on Water

• Rivers never look back, they always flow forward, shaping their path along the way.

  Author: Maya Patel

• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

  Author: Neil Young

• There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

  Author: Coleman Young

• About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

  Author: Frank Yerby

• For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

  Author: Xenophon

• I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.

  Author: Steven Wright

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

  Author: James Wolfensohn

• Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

  Author: James Wilson

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  Author: Carl Wilson

• Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

  Author: Henry Williamson

• You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

  Author: Robin Williams

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Esther Williams

• A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

  Author: Theodore White

• The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

  Author: William Whipple

• I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

  Author: Devon Werkheiser

• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

  Author: Dionne Warwick

• I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.

  Author: Sela Ward

• If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.

  Author: Sid Waddell

• 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.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• 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?

  Author: Jules Verne

• The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  Author: George Vancouver

• Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

  Author: Alvar Vaca

• 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.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  Author: Mark Twain

• This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

  Author: Michael Tolkin

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  Author: Ian Thorpe

• 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.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

  Author: Lowell Thomas

• Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

  Author: James Taylor

• New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

  Author: Billy Tauzin

• When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

  Author: Donna Tartt

• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• 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.

  Author: Amy Tan

• She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

  Author: Rabindranath Tagore

• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  Author: Rabindranath Tagore

• My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

  Author: Ryan Sypek

• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

  Author: David Suzuki

• I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

  Author: Rider Strong

• To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

  Author: Rider Strong

• There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

  Author: James Stockdale

• We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  Author: Wallace Stevens

• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  Author: Nicholas Stern

• Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

  Author: Howard Stern

• Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

  Author: Will Steger

• A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

  Author: Sophocles

• Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

  Author: Suzanne Somers

• On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.

  Author: Susan Smith

• 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.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

  Author: Nina Simone

• I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

  Author: Paul Simon

• The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

  Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  Author: M. Shyamalan

• As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

  Author: Thomas Shadwell

• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

  Author: Jason Segel

• When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

  Author: William Scranton

• Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.

  Author: William Scranton

• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  Author: Olive Schreiner

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  Author: Sally Schneider

• There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

  Author: John Sayles

• At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

  Author: Evan Sayet

• I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.

  Author: Fred Savage

• In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'

  Author: Thomas Sargent

• I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

  Author: Ken Salazar

• All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

  Author: John Salazar

• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

  Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Author: Benjamin Rush

• My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.

  Author: Don Rose

• A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

  Author: Sonny Rollins

• It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

  Author: Bill Rodgers

• There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

  Author: Chris Rock

• I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

  Author: Chris Robinson

• To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

  Author: Frederick Robertson

• One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?

  Author: Geraldo Rivera

• But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

  Author: George Ripley

• This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

  Author: George Ripley

• Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

  Author: Sen Rikyu

• We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

  Author: Ellen Richards

• There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

  Author: Cliff Richard

• Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

  Author: David Ricardo

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  Author: Carl Reiner

• 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.

  Author: John Reilly

• There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

  Author: John Reilly

• I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

  Author: Lee Raymond

• Good words cool more than cold water.

  Author: John Ray

• In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

  Author: Jonathan Raban

• It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• Friendship and money: oil and water.

  Author: Mario Puzo

• I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

  Author: Jonathan Potter

• Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

  Author: Plautus

• Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  Author: Camille Pissarro

• The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

  Author: Marge Piercy

• A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

  Author: William Phelps

• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

  Author: Rick Perry

• If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

  Author: Ross Perot

• A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• We put the Children to death... by throwing them overboard and shooting out their brains in the water.

  Author: George Percy

• You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

  Author: Bill Paxton

• It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

  Author: Ivan Pavlov

• Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

  Author: Alexandra Paul

• It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

  Author: Francis Parkman

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  Author: Daniel Palmer

• If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  Author: Ovid

• The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

  Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

• For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

  Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

• Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

  Author: William Osler

• The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

  Author: Leonard Orr

• This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

  Author: Charles Olson

• You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

  Author: William O'Connell

• Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

  Author: Phillip Noyce

• Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

  Author: Nicholas Negroponte

• No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

  Author: Anna Neagle

• One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

  Author: John Muir

• Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

  Author: John Muir

• The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

  Author: Jamie Muir

• All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

  Author: Michael Moriarty

• A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

  Author: Maria Monk

• My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

  Author: Robert Mondavi

• I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

  Author: Robert Mondavi

• The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

  Author: Wilson Mizner

• At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

  Author: Herman Melville

• When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

  Author: Charlie Melancon

• Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

  Author: Joel McHale

• But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

  Author: Jane Mayer

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  Author: W. Maugham

• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Author: Groucho Marx

• In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

  Author: Felix Marti-Ibanez

• Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

  Author: Roger Maris

• The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

  Author: Diego Maradona

• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Author: Nelson Mandela

• When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

  Author: Nelson Mandela

• You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

  Author: George MacDonald

• Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.

  Author: Paul Lynde

• In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

  Author: Charles Lyell

• I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.

  Author: Jacob Lusk

• The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

  Author: Lucretius

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  Author: John Lubbock

• Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

  Author: Juliette Low

• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.

  Author: James Lind

• Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

  Author: Willy Ley

• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Author: Joe Lewis

• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

  Author: Gilbert Lewis

• Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

  Author: Richard Levin

• Wherever we've travelled in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are about 90% water.

  Author: David Letterman

• The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

  Author: David Letterman

• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  Author: Doris Lessing

• Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

  Author: Fernand Leger

• Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.

  Author: John Leech

• I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

  Author: Louis Leakey

• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  Author: David Lawrence

• I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

  Author: Hugh Laurie

• You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

  Author: Stan Laurel

• But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

  Author: Frank Langella

• The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

  Author: Jessica Lange

• Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

  Author: Walter Lang

• Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

  Author: Satish Kumar

• Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

  Author: John Krasinski

• I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  Author: Edward Koch

• I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

  Author: David Knopfler

• Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

  Author: Evel Knievel

• Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

  Author: Robert Kiyosaki

• It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

  Author: Tom Kite

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Author: Nastassja Kinski

• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

  Author: Nastassja Kinski

• The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

  Author: Klaus Kinski

• If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

  Author: Peter King

• If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

  Author: Don King

• In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

  Author: Ron Kind

• We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

  Author: Ric Keller

• Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

  Author: John Keats

• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  Author: John Keats

• Out of the water, I am nothing.

  Author: Duke Kahanamoku

• Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.

  Author: Duke Kahanamoku

• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Author: Kim Jung

• For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

  Author: Chief Joseph

• Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long periods of time.

  Author: Stan Jones

• It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

  Author: Franklin Jones

• I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

  Author: Lynn Johnston

• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

  Author: Pamela Johnson

• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

  Author: Bobby Jindal

• I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

  Author: Jamelia

• You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

  Author: Amy Irving

• Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

  Author: Muhammad Iqbal

• I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.

  Author: John Huston

• After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.

  Author: Ellsworth Huntington

• The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

  Author: Rex Hunt

• 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.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.

  Author: David Houston

• The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

  Author: Horace

• No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

  Author: Horace

• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  Author: Horace

• You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

  Author: Russel Honore

• Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

  Author: Earl Hines

• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Author: Hermann Helmholtz

• How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

  Author: Anna Held

• I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

  Author: Mitch Hedberg

• My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

  Author: Mitch Hedberg

• Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

  Author: Francis Head

• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  Author: Isaac Hayes

• To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

  Author: John Hawkes

• There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

  Author: George Harrison

• As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.

  Author: Lawrence Hargrave

• The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

  Author: Lawrence Hargrave

• Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

  Author: Jack Hannah

• Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

  Author: Lee Haney

• When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

  Author: Peter Hain

• In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

  Author: Steve Guttenberg

• On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.

  Author: George Grey

• Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

  Author: George Grey

• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  Author: Macy Gray

• We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled.

  Author: Richard Grafton

• It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

  Author: Stone Gossard

• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  Author: Parris Glendening

• Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

  Author: Kirk Gibson

• Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

  Author: Susan George

• It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

  Author: Kevin Garnett

• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  Author: John Gardner

• I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  Author: Ava Gardner

• You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

  Author: Rich Galen

• Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

  Author: Diane Furstenberg

• Scalded cats fear even cold water.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

  Author: Du Fu

• How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

  Author: Lynette Fromme

• This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

  Author: Bill Frist

• The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

  Author: Dave Freudenthal

• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  Author: Sigmund Freud

• My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

  Author: Marilyn French

• When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  Author: Ace Frehley

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