Quotes About Water

The sea is blue because the sunlight is reflected back to our eyes from the water molecules or from very minute particles suspended in the sea. In the journey of the light rays downward into the water and back to our eyes, all the red rays of the spectrum and most of the yellow have been absorbed, so it is chiefly the cool, blue light that we see.

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.

Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart. But then she felt betrayal, she hated, and she was feared. Hate gave her power.

Nothing could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here. You just can't imagine it unless you see it. And even then your experience is not at all the reality: what with the difficulties the Israeli army would face if they shot an unarmed US citizen, the fact that I have money to buy water when the army destroys wells, and of course, the fact that I have the option to leave. I am allowed to see the ocean.

and the desire to spare him that grief rose in her like dark well water until she woke, drowning—

Sal, hortelana, del mar, flotando, sobre tu huerto, desnuda, para llorar por el marinero muerto! Llueve sobre el agua, llueve nieve negra de alga fría. Entre glaciares de nieve, abierta, la tumba mía. ¡Funerales de las olas! ¡El viento, en los arenales! Entre apagadas farolas se hunden mis funerales.

Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.

They excrete in the same water where they eat, and they eat in the semen-clouded water where they fornicate. Fish are disgusting.

For a dog, successfully manipulating a water faucet would be very difficult if not impossible.

Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children.

Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.

On the dark water of the harbor, reflections of shoreside lights cockled like colorful skeins of rippled-ribbon sugar candy.

Now, as she turns away from the water, intending to go to the house to have a glass of wine

Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry well once brimming but now holding only the deep, damp smell of past sustenance. Yet

The front door faces a slope to a shingle shore, a dock, a boathouse, and open water.

boat has been drawn out of the water, onto the sand.

The cause of death was drowning.

were half dead from too little water

meant to go down to the water and sit in the dock chair, let the blissful tranquility of the lake

Not worried exactly, but puzzled, I went down to the dock

Being kind is like looking at your own reflection in the calm waters of a lake. Then the act of kindness ripples those waters, like a stone tossed upon the surface.

We drove through the Old Dominion University campus, where a small permanent lake has formed in the back corner of a huge parking lot. "You can't pave under water," he noted dryly, "so this obviously wasn't under water when this parking lot was paved.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

You next, he said. Out of those clothes and into bed. She nodded but didn't move from Sally's side. The thought of undressing exhausted her. Where would she find the strength such a task would require? I'm filthy. I'll ruin the new bed. I'll bring you some fresh water. I've no clothes to change into. His grin was downright wicked. I know. A short laugh escaped her.