Water Fountain Quotes:

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

- Washington Irving

source: Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Happiness, Smile, Keep Smiling, Social Good

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

- Charles Mackay

source: Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

topic: Mother, Rain, Rivers, Water Fountain, Fresh Water

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Literature, Return, Fountain, Water Fountain

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

- Norman Maclean

source: "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

topic: Running, Rivers, Lakes And Rivers, Water Fountain, Water Is Life

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

- John Updike

topic: Life, Rain, Sky, Water Of Life, Water Fountain

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

- Langston Hughes

topic: Rain, Kissing, Water, Monsoons, Inspirational Rain

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

- Lucretius

topic: Flower, Enchantment, Literature, Water Fountain

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

- Jan Erik Vold

topic: Years, Water, Would Be, Water Fountain, Water Is Life

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

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

topic: Mother, Water, Matter, Spring Water, Mineral Water

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

- Owen Feltham

topic: Water, Ink, Fountain, Blackness, Water Fountain

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

- Lyall Watson

source: Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co

topic: Water, Body, Provocative, Water Fountain, Bodies Of Water

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

- Gretel Ehrlich

topic: Spring, Fall, Lakes, Spring Water, Lakes And Rivers

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

- Charles G.D. Roberts

topic: Water, Masters, Very Good, Water Fountain

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Home, Journey, Sea, Spring Water, Water Fountain

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

- John Locke

topic: Philosophical, Parenting, Bitterness, Water Fountain, Parents Love

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

topic: Spiritual, Rain, Rivers, Water Fountain

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Rain, Humble, Rivers, Water Fountain, Water Resources

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Art, Rain, Color, Water Of Life, Water Fountain

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

- Paul Harvey

topic: Rain, Men, Garden, Water Fountain, Water Resources

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

- Mike McAlary

topic: Rain, Land, Water, Land And Water, Water Fountain

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Strong, Thinking, Rivers, Untrustworthy, Water Fountain

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

- William Ashworth

topic: Children, Rain, Rivers, Water Fountain, Water Resources

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, Dirty Water, Ice Water, Spring Water, Mineral Water

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

- Clarence Thomas

topic: Kids, People, Water, Water Fountain

Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.

- Hal Duncan

topic: Ghetto, Tv Shows, Water, Water Fountain

GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Morning, Water, Pills, Water Fountain, Fresh Water

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

- Lani Guinier

topic: Book, School, Loss, Joblessness, Water Fountain

Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

- David Lammy

topic: Black And White, Gay, Water, Separate But Equal, Water Fountain

"Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?" "Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam French fries." Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."... I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at us "I do not understand." "I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said. "And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam T-shirt."

- Rick Riordan

source: "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse". Book by By Rick Riordan, May 1, 2007.

topic: Snacks, Water, Trying, Grover, Straight Face