Water Quotes

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

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

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

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

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

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

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

I think the key to working out is for people to think of water - just allow the workouts to fill out the cracks in your lives and seep into wherever you can fit it in.

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.

The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.

Out of the water, I am nothing.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

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

You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don't catch a wave for an hour.

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

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

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.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

I'm not a water guy.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I'm popping Zicam like it's candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.