Water Quotes

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

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

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.

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

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

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

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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

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

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

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

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

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

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.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

I'm an instant star, just add water.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

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

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

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

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

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.

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.

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.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

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

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

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.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Water is the best of all things.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

The water doesn't know how old you are.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.

With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

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

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky—seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

Don't water your weeds.

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

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

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

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

How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.

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

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

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.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

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

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.