Quotes About Water

Blue is the water and clear the moon. He is out on the South Lake, Gathering white lilies. The lotus flowers seem to whisper love, And fill the boatman's heart with sadness.

The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.

The Thames shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.

I got up and sprinted into the ocean, chasing my father. I'm in love with the moment when the water switches from being so cold you want to leap up into the air to something that feels just right against your skin.

Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

Davanti alla natura sentivo quello che provavo dopo avere fatto del buon sesso. Trascinata dalla sua energia incommensurabile, intravedevo qua e là delle forme sensuali, quasi celate: i boccioli cilindrici dei fiori di ciliegio, le linee rette delle foglie di giunco, le spirali dei mulinelli che si formavano nell'acqua attorno ai sassi. La sola vista di ciò bastava a farti provare un piacere fisico.

There she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

Avrei voluto che arrivasse presto il mattino. Volevo bagnare il mio corpo nella sua luce abbagliante, quella che purifica ogni cosa, come facevo adesso nell'acqua di quel bagno termale. Perché mi rendevo conto che, come succede quando si ha la febbre alta e non si riesce a ricordare la vita normale, per il momento non potevo vivere al di fuori di quella notte.

I don't think there's much scenery to be seen on the ocean ... It's just plain water all the way over.

Ballet dancers, out of their stylized routines, are fish out of water. On a ballroom floor they're as awkward as other clods, muscle-bound, rhythmless.

We are ice and snow, we are that trapped state. We are water falling, itinerant and vague, ever seeking the lowest level, trying to collect and connect. We are vapor, raised against our own devices, made nebulous, blown on whatever wind arises. To start again, glacial or not.

The girls? We sacrificed them to the water spirit, sir. We used their bodies as an offering. They cried and carried on like crazy." Kien's scouts drew their bayonets. Lien held them back. "Stop! Don't. Perhaps these guys might also want to cry like crazy as the girls did before they died. They won't want to die immediately, will they?

The miracle is not to walk on water but on the earth. —Thich Nhat Hanh

God does not come to us beyond the flesh but in the flesh, at the hands of a teacher who will not be spiritualized but who goes on trust­ing the embodied sacraments of bread, wine, water, and feet. "Do this," he said—not believe this but do this—"in remem­brance of me.

Clear water sped over rocky clusters whose colors ran from ivories to mossy greens, blues and grays. Though clouds covered the sun, the sway of dappling evergreens gave the water sparkle.

current began its pull toward the ocean,

Fear is a rushing sound, like water, in my ears.

in his wild grief Achilles cried aloud, and his mother Thetis heard him...Immediately she rose up through the water...after her came her sisters...and each one's wailing was the thin sound of the wind upon the waves.

Among houseplants, the most efficient air purifiers are heavy transpirers, or species that cycle a lot of water from roots to leaves, such as palms, rubber plants, and corn plants (Dracaena). However, any green plant deserves some credit for making indoor air better for people to breathe.

Free must be like a whippoorwill that could fly here and there and settle where it pleased... free could mean to get paid for your work like white folks... free was like the free black boy who... gave her water... if you were free, you wouldn't be whipped." (58)

Thy love is like deep waters all around-- Warm pulsing waters, in whose brooding sound The lone wail of my heart is lulled with dreams, And the far clamour of the world is drowned.

Bryan was now paid by Merrick to stand on a platform of another kind, erected over the water, and speak not of the gold standard but of the Gold Coast.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!