Water Quotes - Page 9

• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Home, Memorable

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• 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.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  W. C. Fields

  Beer, Alcohol, Drink

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• Expect poison from the standing water.

  William Blake

  Rain, Rivers, Poison

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Rain, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Racks

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 12, l. 9

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• Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Cancer, Commitment, Views

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• Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Rivers, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.92, Penguin

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Nature, Grain Of Salt

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Women, Humor

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• Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.

  Nicola Salvi

  Rain, Rivers, Heat

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• Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Rain, Rivers, Giving

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16

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• How it pours, pours, pours,
  In a never-ending sheet!
  How it drives beneath the doors!
  How it soaks the passer's feet!
  How it rattles on the shutter!
  How it rumples up the lawn!
  How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
  From darkness until dawn.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Rain, Doors, Rivers

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

  Augustus William Hare

  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

  John Culliney

  Ocean, Men, Rivers

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• High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

  Mark Twain

  Wine, Likes, Literature

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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• The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

  Jim Wright

  Rain, Rivers, Survival

  Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann

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• A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

  John Zachary Young

  Marine, Science, Men

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• To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Rain, Order

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Hard Times

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.113, Chinese University Press

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• Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.

  Jay-Z

  Song, Rap, Simple

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• The rising world of waters dark and deep.

  John Milton

  Dark, Rising, World

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.70

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• I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Needs, Littles, Concern

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