Pure Water Quotes:

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

- Thomas Fuller

source: "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

topic: Ocean, Sea, Water, Sound Of Water, Take Nothing For Granted

Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies

- Billy Graham

topic: Christian, Spring, Heart, Pure Water, Refreshments

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

- Ovid

topic: Water, Small Pleasures, Pure, Pure Water

Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be under the sun, the moon, the shining stars and surrounded by the beautiful greenery and pure waters of the natural world.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Beautiful, Nature, Stars, Greenery, Pure Water

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

- Voltaire

topic: Dark, Simple, Two, Pure Water, Simple Food

Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.

- Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves

topic: Drinking, Beer, Men, Pure Water

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

- Vanessa Redgrave

topic: Thinking, Civilization, Water, Pure Water

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Moving, Buddhism, Rocks, Pure Water

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

- John Burroughs

topic: Water, Earth, Holy, Holy Water, Pure Water

There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual ... and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.

- Linn Thomas

topic: Nature, Distance, Air, Pure Water

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

- Aristotle

topic: Locality, Drinking Water, Pure Water

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Queen Mab Notes

topic: Vegetables, Water, Adoption, Pure Water

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?

- Saint Francis de Sales

topic: Glasses, Water, Desire, Divine Will, Pure Water

I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

- John Donne

topic: Running, Time, Fire, Pure Water, Quickening

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

topic: Heart, Water, Grace, Contemplative, Divine Grace

For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.

- Theodore Newton Vail

topic: Determination, Government, Water, Individual Life, Pure Water

Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.171, Top Five Books LLC

topic: Nature, Stars, Lying, Pure Water, Tale Of Two Cities

Any job that allows me to use my pure water cleaning system and water fed pole is one I love. The wow factor for the customer after we [New View Window Cleaning] are done and they can't believe what we did with "just water and a brush" is something I never tire of.

- Tony Evans

topic: Jobs, Believe, Views, Pure Water

When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

- William Cowper

topic: Angel, Wings, Sky, Pure Water, Angel Wings

the value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

- Bill Mollison

topic: Yield, Land, Water, Pure Water

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

- Gilbert N. Lewis

topic: Ions, Giving, Water, Pure Water, One Sided

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

- Wilhelm Ostwald

topic: Order, Water, Sugar, Sugar Cane, Pure Water

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Water, Ingredients, Lectures, Pure Water

Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

- Elif Safak

topic: Real, Heart, Water, Pure Water

Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.

- Susun Weed

topic: Wise, Children, Pregnancy, Pure Water, Respectful Relationships

It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Wisdom, Strong, Heart, Pure Water

I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Love, Life, Truth, Intoxicated, Eternal Beauty

From the beginning philosophy sought for The order behind the disorder Thales sipped cheap wine And in this did divine: "Why it's nothing at all but pure water!"

- Rebecca Goldstein

source: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Philosophy, Wine, Order, Cheap Wine, Pure Water

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.

- Tom Felton

topic: Pain, Spring, Knowledge, Pure Water