Water Quotes

• Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Attention
  • Humans
  • Capable

• There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Pain
  • Evil

• In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Speculation
  • Originality

• I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Water
  • Philosophy
  • Gun

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

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Long
  • Together
  • Loses

• I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Water
  • Swim

• In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • College
  • Marathon

• I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Jobs

• We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Fire

• When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Hurt
  • Cold
  • Feet

• I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Together
  • Freak
  • Apples

• I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Swimming
  • Felt
  • Fingers

• I don't understand water and gravity.

  

  Camille
  • Water
  • Gravity

• Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

  

  John Heywood
  • Water

• Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • House
  • Eye
  • Prayer

• I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Broken
  • Week
  • Apartment

• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Air
  • Bird

• Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

  

  Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria
  • Business
  • Plans
  • Grand

• Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

  

  Catullus
  • Water
  • Wine
  • Destruction

• Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

  

  Anthony Lawlor
  • Life
  • Death
  • Water

• This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Thinking
  • House

• A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Giving
  • Wine
  • Certainty

• I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

  

  Gerry Schwartz
  • inspirational
  • Independence
  • Elements

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