Quotes About Thirst

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night we drink you mornings and noontime we drink you evenings we drink and we drink

Iced tea! Nothing is half so refreshing as a glass of black tea piled high with ice! More than a quencher of thirst, it is a tamer of tempers, a lifter of lethargy, and a brightener of smiles. It is a taste of Winter's chill, magically trapped in midsummer's glass.

I'm talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

Beware! In every man there lurks the falcon; a streak of ruthlessness and thirst for power.

Put salt in our mouths that we may thirst for you.' Amen. (Prayer of St Augustine)

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

Growing up emotionally neglected is like nearly dying of thirst outside the fenced off fountain of a parent's warmth and interest. Emotional neglect makes children feel worthless, unlovable and excruciatingly empty. It leaves them with a hunger that gnaws deeply at the center of their being. They starve for human warmth and comfort.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ëThe LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?í

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

The caravans of Tema look for water; the travelers of Sheba hope to find it.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,