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Quotes About Water

Huh!" Mistystar's deputy, Reedwhisker, exclaimed. "Twolegs couldn't catch a fish if it leaped out of the water and begged them.
~ Erin Hunter
She shut her eyes and summoned up her old rapport with her sister. Emptying her mind, she concentrated fiercely. She gasped to feel a surge of cold and wet, shuddering as a blast of cold wind probed her drying fur. But there was no sign of Squirrelpaw anywhere—just water, blasting air, and endless rock.
~ Erin Hunter
Ik vind bomen een van de mooiste dingen die er zijn. Water en bomen en meisjes.
~ Erlend Loe
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
~ Erma Bombeck
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
~ Erma Bombeck
He is capable of any crime, from reviling the Classics to diverting water courses.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith
This matter is best disposed of from a great height, over water.
~ Ernest Lehman
Las luces del "Copacabana" rielando en el agua negra del malecón, que mana de las cloacas de Managua. Conversaciones absurdas de noches de borrachera que se repiten y se repiten como un disco rayado. Y los gritos de las ruletas, y las roconolas. "Y mi pecado está siempre delante de mí.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Boltzmann's equation is well illustrated by that example. The gradual 'spreading out' of the sugar over all the water available increases the disorder D), and hence (since the logarithm of D increases with D) the entropy.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
The men didn't want to waste time beaching the ship. I heard a loud splash as Prince Jason himself slung the stone anchor overboard; then he took up his sword and shield before jumping into the hip-deep water. His bare legs churned the water to foam as he raced toward the battle. If lying came easily to him, so did courage; I had to give him that.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Dis wat 'n mens Hollands kan maak. Hierdie water wat soos asem om jou is.
~ Etienne van Heerden
Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
~ Eugene Peterson
I don't get philosophical. Love fish. Love sharks. Keep the water and their habitats as clean and protected as possible
~ Eugenie Clark
Sale un' ora d' attesa in cielo, vacua, dal mare che s'ingrigia. Un albero ill nuvole sull' acqua cresce, poi crolla come di cinigia. Assente, come manem in questa plaga che ti presente e senza te consuma: sei lontana e pero tutto divaga dal suo soleo, dirupa, spare in bruma.
~ Eugenio Montale
where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.
~ Eugie Foster
When I stepped onto the bridge over the Iowa River and stood looking out across the water, I knew I was home. I was wrong about that, as it turns out. And I know now that my certainty was based on a series of troubling misconceptions, but it would be years before I would lose the comfort that certainty gave me.
~ Eula Biss
I come home to an empty house and fill the sink with water. The pigeons above the window are clucking. I let the dishes slip under the bubbles and I close my eyes. I listen to the perfect, whole, round sounds of glass against porcelain under water.
~ Eula Biss
The laws of water are very difficult. No matter how many times it is explained to me, I don't understand how the tides work. I know, of course, that water will seek a level. I know that it will only flow down.
~ Eula Biss
Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her
~ Eva Ibbotson
They turned into the Agarapi and soon afterward saw a great snake, endlessly long, rustling through the leaves and dropping down into the dark water. "An anaconda," said the professor. "Is it dangerous?" asked Miss Minton. "Not to us," said the professor. "It's a good omen--the God of the Water making himself known.
~ Eva Ibbotson
And how's the water in that river this time of year?
~ Evangeline Anderson
Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
A reliable electric grid is absolutely necessary to provide drinking water. You have to have the electricity.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler