John Updike Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

  John Updike

  Life, Rain, Sky

• Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.

  John Updike

  Life, Water, Hot

• I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

  John Updike

  Running, Golf, Opportunity

• Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

  John Updike

  Water, Buckets

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.28, Random House

• Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

  John Updike

  Song, Attitude, War

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House

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