Cool Water Quotes:

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

- Loren Eiseley

source: The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

topic: Garden, Rivers, Water, Lakes And Rivers, Ocean Water

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

- Roderick Haig-Brown

topic: Rain, Moving, Memorable, Moving Water, Water Fountain

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

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Encouragement, Beach, Ocean, Maritime, Sea Breeze

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

topic: Rivers, Water, Treasure, Water Resources, White Water

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

- Wallace Stegner

source: Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

topic: Heart, Rivers, Glasses, Sped, White Water

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Buddhist, Rivers, Perserverance, Keep Patience, Fluff

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

- Lynn Culbreath Noel

topic: Running, Memorable, Rivers, Water Is Life, White Water

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

- William Beebe

source: William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com

topic: Men, Water, Mosquitoes, Marshes, Cool Water

We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.

- Barbara Johnson

source: Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.115, Zondervan

topic: Lonely, Laughter, Heart, Cool Water, Lonely Heart

God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.

- Amin Maalouf

source: Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Hair, Cool Water

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

- Harold Monro

source: Harold Monro, “Child Of Dawn”

topic: Art, Children, Water, Dreamy, Cool Water

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Summer, Art, Swimming, Cool Water

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2007). “On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Dark, Play, Cool Water

Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.

- Cindy Ross

topic: Pain, Distance, Live Life, Cool Water

In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.

- Tom Turner

source: Tom Turner (2004). “Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design”, p.6, Routledge

topic: Running, Country, Sleep, Cool Water

...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Exercise, Dark, Garden, Dark Ages, Multiplying

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)

- Patrick deWitt

topic: Laughter, Heart, Water, Cool Water

You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to them: I am daughter of the earth and the star-covered Sky, and I descend from the Sky; and that you know; I burn and die of thirst; let me drink quickly of the cool water that gushes from the lake of Memory. And they will allow you to drink from the sacred spring.

- Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

topic: Daughter, Stars, Memories, Cypresses, Cool Water

And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you." The wind stirred the leaves of the chestnut trees nearby, and the scents of late summer rose up rich around us; pine and grass and strawberries, sun-warmed stone and cool water, and the sharp, musky smell of his body next to mine. "Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Summer, Smell, Wind, Late Summer, Thermodynamics

You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and mysterious. The taste of you drives me wild. I want to be with you, be inside you, shout to the world that you are mine at the same time I want to keep you hidden where you will exist only for me. You make me feel invincible, little bird.

- Katie MacAlister

source: Katie Macalister (2008). “Playing With Fire: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.177, Penguin

topic: Night, Air, Water, You Make Me Feel, Want To Be With You

I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time.

- Michael Martin Murphey

topic: Music, Song, Cowboy, Bluegrass, Tall

The principal reason it transforms is that water is a collection of molecules, H2O, every child learns that.And that bond has the property that as the bonds get stronger when you cool water, the ice expands.

- Ira Flatow

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Children, Ice, Water, Cool Water