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Quotes About Water

Spinners are known for their athletics, rocketing out of the water in aerial leaps whenever the urge strikes, but these dolphins were relaxed.
~ Susan Casey
water was the one element that could in some measure defy all magic; for moving water would tolerate no magic whether for evil or good, but would wash it away as if it had never been made.
~ Susan Cooper
The cattle are restless from the water," he told them. "Stay alert. Given the choice between losing one of them and losing one of you, I want you to save yourself." "Good to know," Maya muttered from Phoebe's left. "What if it's the choice between me and two steers?" Zane either didn't hear her or ignored her.
~ Susan Mallery
Cats should only have canned food. They don't have a strong instinct to drink water and dry food gives them kidney problems
~ Susan Mallery
Bright yellow leaves flowed swiftly upon the dark, almost-black water, making patterns as they went. To Mr. Segundus the patterns looked a little like magical writing. 'But then,' he thought, 'So many things do.
~ Susanna Clarke
Boating, my dear Mrs. Bedel, is the dullest of all things; don't you think so? Because a boat looks very pretty from the shore, we fancy that the shore must look very pretty from a boat; and when we try it, we find we have only got down into a pit and can see nothing rightly. For my part, I hate boating and I hate the water...
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Mon âme a tant d'âges Je me baigne dans une eau où je ne suis pas
~ Josephine Bacon
The sullen late-July days would break suddenly into shrieking tempest, in the black heart of which they would struggle with halliards that seemed to have an evil and furious life of their own; or they would be beaten to the deck by a solid weight of rain that was like the emptying of buckets. It was not rain at all, as the term is understood. The skies just turned to water and fell down.
~ Josephine Tey
Question of Baptism
~ Joseph-Marie Perrin
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
~ Josh Billings
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
~ Josh Billings
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
~ Josh Billings
Everywhere we'd gone that day, bronze plaques kept popping up to mark some historical occasion. Here resistance fighters had dug a tunnel, here the dissidents had withstood the tanks. The whole city was like that: one giant monument to the heroes and martyrs. But what about those of us just trying to get by? I put on my sunglasses and stared out at the water.
~ Joshua Ferris
I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could not swim.
~ Joshua Slocum
Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [...] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.
~ Joy Harjo
Tout est inutile et il faut au moins avoir le courage de ne pas se faire de prétextes. J'aurais aimé clouer la nuit sur du papier, comme un grand papillon nocturne. Mais, plutôt, c'est elle qui m'a soulevé de ses eaux, comme le corps livide d'un mort et qui me pousse, inexorablement, au milieu du froid et de l'écume vaporeuse, au-devant d'elle.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
Fui sobre agua edificada, mis muros de fuego son
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Mångata. Em sueco, o reflexo da Lua que forma uma estrada na água.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
L'orizzonte è il tuo corpo. L'orizzonte è la mia anima. Raggiungo il tuo limite: ancora sabbia. Raggiungi il mio limite: ancora acqua.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Platero acababa de beberse dos cubos de agua con estrellas en el pozo del corral, y volvía a la cuadra, lento y distraído entre los altos girasoles. Yo le aguardaba en la puerta, echado en el quicio de cal y envuelto en la tibia fragancia de los heliotropos
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
El pozo! Platero, ¡qué palabra tan honda, tan verdinegra, tan fresca, tan sonora! Parece que es la palabra la que taladra girando, la tierra oscura, hasta llegar al agua fría".
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
She be a smart woman, ain't she? Yes, sir. I shouldn't have made such a fuss. I can get in some water. Just like that, he admitted he was wrong. What an amazing conversation. (hardback, large print, page 76)
~ Judith Ivory
family or friends, for most of them would believe him to be still at The Pride, enjoying Grandpa's seventy-fifth birthday dinner. It could be Con – Con did not like him to be alone on family occasions – but why should Con come across the water, in Pat Paterson's row-boat, with Pat straining at the oars? The boat had swung towards his landing stage
~ Judith Saxton
In short: when we are exposed to sunlight, trees, water or even just a view of green leaves, we become happier, healthier and stronger. People living in green spaces have more energy and a stronger sense of purpose, and being able to see green spaces from your home is associated with reduced cravings for alcohol, cigarettes and harmful foods.
~ Julia Baird