Quotes About Water
At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface.
~ Joanne Harris
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O espírito, como um pássaro, não se lhe deu da corrente dos anos, arrepiou o vôo na direção da fonte original, e foi beber da água fresca e pura, ainda não mesclada do enxurro da vida.
~ Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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Water never stops moving. Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river. The river finds its way to the ocean. It evaporates, like a soul, into the clouds. And then, like everything else, it starts all over again.
~ Jodi Picoult
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You shall obtain the fruits of your mind's desires, by focusing your consciousness on the Lord's Lotus Feet. He is totally pervading the water and the land; He is the Lord of the World-forest. Behold Him in exaltation in each and every heart. Nanak gives this advice.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?
~ Wilfred Owen
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I'll need hot water for washing." Hart barked. Wellford murmured, "Immediately sir," as he bowed back out the door. He did not say, "Of course, sir. I bring you hot water every single morning, even when you haven't debased yourself for a woman.
~ Unknown
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Plants won't wither if we always water them. So it's, also, with the memories. It's good, when they're pleasant, but if they aren't, then it's madness.
~ Unknown
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Giving advice to the fool is like sowing water in the ocean.
~ Unknown
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Time is nothing but just a well without water in the desert when you are thirsty and hope that it must be somewhere.
~ Unknown
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Water benefits us without taking from us. It cleanses us, nourishes us, and calms our restlessness. So is a mother to her child. From the moment of birth, a child's well-being is her only concern. A wise mother cleans and discards the child's waste without comment. The child's excrement, its tears, its rages, are all allowed to be and discarded without emotion. A wise mother does not judge her child.
~ Vimala McClure
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This evening when the setting sun was reflected in the water and in the windows and cast a bright golden glow over everything, it looked just like a picture by Cuyp.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
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big dixie which contained a mixture of rum and lime and water, well calculated to dispel the ugliness of the day and turn the night into something soft and sympathetic.
~ Unknown
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Stalagmite: a calcium carbonate deposit shaped like an icicle and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water … Stalagmite: dripping of percolating calcareous …
~ Virginia Hamilton
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All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud touches the patchwork spread on the hill the washed colors of the afterlife that lived there long before you were born see how they wake without a question even though the whole world is burning
~ Unknown
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
~ W. C. Fields
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Nunca bebo agua, me preocupa que pueda convertirse en un hábito.
~ W. C. Fields
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O plunge your hands in water,Plunge them in up to the wrist;Stare, stare in the basinAnd wonder what you've missed.The glacier knocks in the cupboard,The desert sighs in the bed,And the crack in the tea cup opensA lane to the land of the dead.
~ W. H. Auden
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
~ W. H. Auden
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In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
~ W. H. Auden
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But soon a tear-drop started up, For aimless joy had made me stop Beside the little lake To watch a white gull take A bit of bread thrown up into the air; Now gyring down and perning there He splashed where an absurd Portly green-pated bird Shook off the water from his back; Being no more demoniac A stupid happy creature Could rouse my whole nature.
~ W.B. Yeats
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Thousands have lived without love, none without water.
~ W.H. Auden
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O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed
~ W.H. Auden
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To The Hand" What the eye sees is a dream of sight what it wakes to is a dream of sight and in the dream for every real lock there is only one real key and it's in some other dream now invisible it's the key to the one real door it opens the water and the sky both at once it's already in the downward river with my hand on it my real hand and I am saying to the hand turn open the river
~ W.S. Merwin
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The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.
~ Dave Matthews
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