Quotes About Water

The breath is like the waves in the ocean that help circulate the water so that it does not become stagnant.

Gentleness is like water—it will eventually reach its goal. Aggression is like fire—it is quick and then it is gone.

The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.

Tess Bean had sent him flailing into the freezing cold water.

Our breath Caught like a needle On the skin of water You said "Will it be here?" "Here where the grass is so tall?" And I thought Yes Yes here

It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn, very like the Tao. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the land.

Just like the dry land to name the cruel things in the water after women.

Twelve barrels of water are required to make one barrel of bitumen. This produces 400 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater at the tar sand mines.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well.

Her love is fire in an aquatic world. By Sandy Sinn

The touched heart madly stirs, your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation, every sound is speech...

Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.

Since Death brushed past me once more to-day, Let me say quickly what I must say: Take without shame the love I give you, Take it before I am hurried away. You are intrepid, noble, kind, My heart goes to you with my mind, The plummet of your thought is long Sunk in deep water, cold with song. You are all I asked, my dear– My words are said, my way is clear.

The sun spread into the horizon as if it were melting into the water, an act that, while poetic, would not have been appreciated by the fish.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.