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Quotes About Waters

God is the fountain of all living waters.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The state of coastal waters reflects the nature of souls that surround it.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.
~ Monica Baldwin
Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.
~ George Wigram
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
~ Ambrose
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
~ William Butler Yeats
Heaven is a kingdom that cannot be shaken—Christ an abiding portion—his graces and comforts, sure waters that fail not, but spring up into eternal life. The
~ William Gurnall
Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.
~ David W. Orr
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
~ Jeff Bridges
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.
~ Martin Luther
SLEEPING Here, we are one geography: every part of us inked on a map where, across all the blue waters, continents' edges inexplicably match. I move closer to you in the dark, feel the slow heat that embers you deeper into the night. Where all fires descend a few hours into their own slow-dreaming hearts. Where the ravine hides in its own steepness no matter how long, how fiercely we love.
~ Jane Hirshfield
the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" (Hab.
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
Help me to vengeance," she said. "Give the Greeks a bitter homecoming. Stir up your waters with wild whirlwinds when they sail. Let dead men choke the bays and line the shores and reefs.
~ Edith Hamilton
IT rose for them—their honey-moon—over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own.
~ Edith Wharton
The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils and trophies of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel; and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was forever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prisoners, who had been employed to execute the work.
~ Edward Gibbon
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.
~ Aldo Leopold
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
~ Claude Debussy
My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
~ Frances Beinecke
The legacy, the waste, is mostly in international waters that are sort of in no man's land and thus considered to be no one nation's problem.
~ Boyan Slat
This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of this nation are protected.
~ Janet Reno
Rep. Maxine Waters must be expelled from Congress!
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Conserving the Rim of the Valley Corridor is critical to helping California and the nation meet our goal of conserving 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.
~ Alex Padilla
But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
~ Tom Allen