Water Quotes - Page 8

• Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Drinking, Medicine, Suffering

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

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• Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Flower

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.164

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• As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Flower, Overcoming

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• On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

  Michael Bolton

  Moving, Swimming, People

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

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, Comfort, Reason

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Rain, Adventure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

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• The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Air, Free Gifts

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• It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

  Aesop

  Life, Passion, Fire

  "Aesop's Fables". Book by Aesop (Fable XXXVIII "A Horse and an Asse"),

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• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  Edmund Muskie

  Ocean, Moving, Lakes

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• Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Art, Food, Wine

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• To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Country, Men, Land

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• Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

  Mike McAlary

  Rain, Power, Land

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• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

  Adeline Knapp

  Mistake, Rain, Perspective

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Daughter, Dark, Moon

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• For me Super Junior like a water, I always need it and it very fresh for me

  Yesung

  Juniors, Needs, Super Junior

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• Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

  John Florio

  Dresses, Flesh, Fishes

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• ...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Opportunity, Air

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• Tis rushing now adown the spout,
  And gushing out below,
  Half frantic in its joyousness,
  And wild in eager flow.
  The earth is dried and parched with heat,
  And it hath long'd to be
  Released from out the selfish cloud,
  To cool the thirsty tree.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Selfish, Rain, Clouds

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• There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.

  Edward Lear

  Daughter, Drink, Said

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Thinking, Land

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• The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.

  Paul Brown

  Average, Numbers, People

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• 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

  Mother, Fun, Literature

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• A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

  John Keats

  Lakes, Poetry, Understanding

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