Water Quotes
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, 'I have found it! Eureka!'
Plutarch
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People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF.
Audrey Hepburn
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The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote. Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.
Edmund de Waal
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
Tom Lehrer
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Working in water is so difficult. But I liked having something very physical to do - you realize you're strong. It's a really good feeling.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
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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
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.
Celia Thaxter
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There's people in hell who want ice water.
Nelson Algren
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Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
William Cullen Bryant
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I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!
Ne-Yo
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
William Shakespeare
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When you see a guy go down, you smell blood in the water.
Anthony Famiglietti
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Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
Ernest Hemingway
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Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.
Charles Bernhard Heyd
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I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
Mike May
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
Yann Martel
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Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.
Quincy Jones
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The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
Emily Dickinson
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The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.
Carolyn Murphy
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You cannot love someone you do not know - not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.
Jane Roberts
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How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water.
Jim Gaffigan
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It’s not right to put water before people and then keep them away from it.
William H. Whyte
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I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Petra Nemcova