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Quotes About Water

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.
~ Gerald H. Pollack
The water-bridge. A bridge made of water spans the gap between two water-filled beakers. What sustains the bridge?
~ Gerald H. Pollack
The demonstration starts by filling the two beakers almost to their brims with water and then placing them side-by-side, lips touching. An electrode immersed in each beaker imposes a potential difference on the order of 10 kV.
~ Gerald H. Pollack
And her laughter was like the wind, the water, and a thousand songbirds singing together.
~ Gerald Morris
At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though in hot water up to its nose.
~ Anonymous
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
~ Fisher Ames
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
~ John Florio
Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
~ John Neale
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
~ Louis L'Amour
The waters wear the stones.
~ Bible
Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.
~ Issac Bashevis Singer
Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March. Opposite him, a little to the side, stood the eternal bridge, everlastingly the same; through its white arches could be seen the green, sparkling, tumultuous waters of the Drina, so that they seemed like some strange diadem in two colours which sparkled in the sun.
~ Ivo Andri?
Así en la kapija, entre el cielo, el río y las montañas, generación tras otra aprendió a no lamentar sobremanera lo que el agua turbia se llevaba. Ahí les penetró la filosofía inconsciente de la kasaba: que la vida es un prodigio incomprensible porque se gasta y derrocha sin cesar y, sin embargo, dura y perdura firmemente como <>
~ Ivo Andri?
ne znaš da li nas lepota privla?i svojom snagom ili je to snaga koja izvire iz nas i lomi se, kao voda o kamen, tamo gde sretne lepotu.
~ Ivo Andri?
Na sredini je nizak šedervan ?ija voda ne šiklja uvis, nego se posle kratkog uspona vra?a, opta?e mramornu jabuku, i pada u okrugli basen. Tako taj šedrvan ne vra?a oko onim nemo?nim naporom vode koja se penje što više može pa se onda ruši, daju?i nepanu sliku umora i pada po neumoljivom zakonu, nego izgleda kao krupan tropski cvet koji se pri vrhu rastvara i ukazuje srebrnu ponutricu, a niti vene niti docvetava.
~ Ivo Andri?
Water lapped as she sat forward. "Don't play games with me, Roarke." "Eve, it's my fondest wish to do just that.
~ J.D. Robb
And I left the aspirin next to the phone with a tall glass of water. Figured you weren't going to be able to make it to the coffeepot. Take three, turn your ringer off, and sleep. If anything exciting happens, I'll come and get you." "I love you, honey." "So buy me a mink and a nice pair of earrings for our anniversary." "You got it.
~ J.R. Ward
Twas the wind which made Darius's eyes water. Verily, 'twas but the wind. As
~ J.R. Ward
Marissa took a sip from a glass of water. "It's perfectly innocent." "I'm doing a naked calendar," the fallen angel started. "He had a jockstrap on." "It was all done with a selfie stick.
~ J.R. Ward
The kindness she'd offered had been as warm and soft as skin, as soothing as calm water, as sustaining as the sunlight he no longer knew.
~ J.R. Ward
Time was draining out like water from a bath, leaving a whole lot of cold in its absence
~ J.R. Ward
Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—
~ Jack Kerouac