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Quotes About Waters

She tells me of her journey, of the train from London—when she says the word, London, she seems conscious of the sound; I suppose she is not in the habit of naming it, of considering it a place of destination or desire.
~ Sarah Waters
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. PSALM 46 : 1 – 3
~ Sarah Young
Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters.
~ Scott McNeely
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. (Ps. 46:1–3)
~ Scotty Smith
The twins climbed into the vallom and rowed across vast, choppy waters. With a Thaiy thaiy thaka thaiy thaiy thome. And a jeweled Jesus watching. He walked on water. Perhaps. But could He have swum on land? (201)
~ Arundhati Roy
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
~ Dylan Thomas
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away
~ Solomon
But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.
~ Pablo Neruda
The echoes had faded, and now the eager silence of the house rose to enfold us like the waters of a well.
~ Jonathan Stroud
In Morocco, he was back in his element, a shark moving through deep and dangerous waters. But for thousands of years sharks have been bred to survive dark and dangerous waters. So too, Leonid Arkadin.
~ Eric Van Lustbader
Drink does not drown Care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The hardheaded followers of the previously mentioned Party-Crashing Busybody religion failed to appreciate the beauty of the endless forest and clear waters that appeared before them on the fresh green continent of the New World. Instead, they saw the paradise that was there and the people who lived in harmony with it as alien and threatening, something to attack and conquer - because it all stood in the way of the Great Reward.
~ Benjamin Hoff
around the glassy waters of the protected beachfront. "What happened here," she adds, her voice soft, "is almost too much to take." "I understand," I say.
~ Gregg Olsen
Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.
~ John Keble
The sunset and the gentle moon, the blessed motion of the leaves and the murmuring of waters are all sweet physicians to a distempered mind. The soul is expanded and drinks in quiet, a lulling medicine – to me it was as the sight of the lovely water snakes to the bewitched mariner – in loving and blessing Nature I unawares, called down a blessing on my own soul.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion
~ Stephen King
We see in part, and thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened." There are other worlds, gunslinger, and other demons. These waters are deep. Watch for the doorways. Watch for the roses and the unfound doorways.
~ Stephen King
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
~ C. S. Lewis
Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors. We tear them down at our peril. We skate, unconsciously, on thin ice, with deep, cold waters below, where unimaginable monsters lurk.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
where purl with ravishing music the scented waters that come from the grotto-born river Narg.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
when I glanced at the moon it seemed to quiver as though mirrored in unquiet waters.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Now in the midst of the broken waters of my civilization rhythm begins. Clear above the flood I raise my ringing voice. In the disorder and darkness of the night, in the wind and the washing waves, I shout to my brothers--lost in the flood.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
In like manner the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. And once there was calming, there could be creating.
~ Max Lucado