Drinking Water Quotes - Page 6

• Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

  Winona LaDuke

  Drinking, Native American, Water

  "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013.

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• 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. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Drinking, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2484, Delphi Classics

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• Every night it's the same... I have supper in my red dish and drinking water in my yellow dish... Tonight I think I'll have my supper in the yellow dish and my drinking water in the red dish. Life is too short not to live it up a little!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Drinking, Life Is Too Short, Thinking

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• It’s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. It’s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. We’ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason it’s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users—industry, which polluted it.

  Vandana Shiva

  Drinking, Blue, People

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• Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.

  George Singleton

  Selfish, Drinking, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval, soul-shattering darkness if you don't let us do whatever the hell we want with the landscape and drinking water you public health, because there's no alternative."

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Drinking, Two, Light

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• The [Donald] Trump administration is making it very clear that they intend to destroy our only drinking water resource on the Standing Rock Nation and the tens - the 10 million people who live south of the proposed pipeline. Drilling can begin any minute.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Drinking, Rocks, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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

  John Updike

  Life, Rain, Sky

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• Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

  Jewel

  Drinking, Technology, Water

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• A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

  Laura Gilpin

  Moving, Rain, Memorable

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• Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment

  Ian Kiernan

  Drinking, Simple, Differences

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• I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

  Sarah Vowell

  Drinking, Water, Imagination

  "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.cc.com. February 21, 2006.

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