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Quotes About Water

I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.
~ Jimmy Carr
Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus.
~ Mitch Hedberg
They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.
~ Steven Wright
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?
~ George Carlin
By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
~ Martin Luther
Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.
~ Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Water is the most essential element in life, because without it you can't make coffee.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Water IS the most important element on the face of the earth, because without water, there would be no WINE and without WINE I would be living in a PADDED CELL!
~ Tanya Masse
Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.
~ Sharon Gannon
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.
~ Hugh B. Brown
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.
~ Elayne Boosler
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
~ Lowell Thomas
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
~ John Dyer
A calm water is like a still soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My spirit thirst for the living water.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The waters hold all heaven within their heart.
~ Jan Karon
I had a backpack with our water supplies and tossed in a crab net I'd found in the camp closet, just in case I needed to capture that bird. Or tie off a compound fracture. It could swing either way.
~ Jana Deleon
Let reason flow like water around a stone, the stone remains.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like Fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the worlds soft decay.
~ Janet Finch
I want to go swimming," the child said. She waited for opposition, but none came. So she took off her clothes, slowly and nervously. She glanced at her grandmother -- you can't depend on people who just let things happen. She put her legs in the water. "It's cold," she said. "Of course it's cold," the old woman said, her thoughts somewhere else. "What did you expect?
~ Jansson, Tove