100+ Water Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.339, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Ocean, Water, Humanity

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

- Anna Neagle

topic: Water, Solitude, Family And Friends, Love Our Family

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

- Anna Sewell

source: Anna Sewell (2012). “Black Beauty”, p.9, Courier Corporation

topic: Book, Water, Tree, Clear Water, Water Lily

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble ...

- Anne Askew

topic: Adversity, Water, Bread

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.

- Anne Bishop

topic: Water, Looks, Stubborn, Gist, Cold Water

I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.

- Anne Cassidy

topic: Children, Eye, Water

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

- Anne Fadiman

source: Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.113, Macmillan

topic: Book, Water, Settling

We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the waters. Only a handful will survive but that is plenty.

- Anne Heywood

topic: Baby, Ideas, Water

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Glasses, People, Water

Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Wings, Water, Grace

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Jesus, Water, Trying

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor

topic: God, Prayer, Water

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories

- Anne Rice

source: Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

topic: Fashion, Water, Soul

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.

- Anne Rice

topic: Water, House, Mind, Chimes

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

source: Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

topic: Laughter, Water, Tiny

When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

- Anne, Princess Royal

topic: Horse, Fall, Water

Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Children, Reflection, Water

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Life, Sleep, Water, Insensible, Waking Life

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?

- Annie Leonard

source: "The Story of Bottled Water", www.imdb.com. 2010.

topic: Water, Cost, Sandwiches, Tap Water, Bottled Water

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

- Annie Proulx

topic: Adversity, Thinking, Water

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

- Anthony Doerr

topic: Thinking, Fishing, Water, Fish Tanks

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

- Anthony Hopkins

topic: Water, Laughing, Have A Laugh, Working For A Living

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Water, Feel Good, Surfing, Salt Water

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

- Anthony Lawlor

topic: Life, Opposites, Water, Rigidity, Signs Of Life

The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.

- Anthony Loyd

source: Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.211, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Fall, Water, Hatred, Dripping, Dripping Water

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Rivers, Water, Flow, Flowing River, Flowing Water

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Water, Drunk, Tree, Minerals

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

- Antoine Lavoisier

topic: Animal, Vegetables, Water, Four Elements

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Beautiful, Stars, Water, Plant A Tree, Right To Life

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

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Rain, Years, Water, Living Creatures, Rain Water

I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Blood, Hands, Water, Humidity

Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

topic: Wise, Science, Water, Flour

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

- Antonin Sertillanges

topic: Writing, Light, Water, Sleeplessness

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

- Anwar Sadat

topic: War, Egypt, Water

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

- Aristotle

topic: Sweet, Wine, Water, Salt Water, Vapour

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

- Aristotle

topic: Water, Democracy, Littles

I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy you in a way look fit.

- Arjun Rampal

topic: People, Water, Way

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Golf, Water, Balls, Golf Ball

The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.

- Arpad Elo

topic: Player, Wind, Water, Swaying, Cork

The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

- Arshile Gorky

source: University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, Arshile Gorky (1975). “Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings”

topic: Water, Risk, Secret, Water Of Life, No Reservations

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Water, Taste, Powder

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

- Art Donovan

topic: Water, Toilets, Bigs, Bathtubs

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Fall, Glasses, Water, Niagara Falls, Niagara

As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Rocks, Water, Arms

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

- Arthur Dove

topic: Wind, Water, Sound

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

- Arthur Golden

source: "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

topic: Fear, Water, Ponds

It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!

- Arthur Golden

topic: Believe, Fighting, Water

She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Eye, Artist, Water, Geisha

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Mother, Water, Stones, Trapped, Geisha

The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: War, Water, Population, Death Camps

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Memories, Water, Heaven

In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.

- Arvid Carlsson

topic: Water, Toxic, Substance

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

- Ashley Madekwe

topic: Water, Tea, Bleach

The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

- August Busch III

topic: Air, Water, Choices, Air And Water

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

- August Strindberg

topic: Long, People, Water

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Sea, Water, Monkeys

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 ***** duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

- Ava Gardner

source: Lemmy Kilmister, Janiss Garza (2003). “White Line Fever”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

topic: People, Perfect, Water

It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

- Avicenna

source: Avicenna, Desmond Christopher Mandeville, Aristotle (1927). “De congelatione et conglutinatione lapidum, being sections of the Kitāb al-shifâ: The Latin and Arabic texts, edited with an English translation of the latter and with critical notes”

topic: Water, Earth, Virtue

If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.

- Aziz Ansari

topic: Art, Air, Water, Self Mastery

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Water, Thirst, Satisfied, Worldly Wisdom

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

- Ban Ki-moon

source: "To End Poverty, Act on Climate" by Kathy Calvin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

topic: Fighting, People, Water, Solutions To Poverty, Economic Climate

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.