Quotes About Water

He tried to explain how there was something cathartic about being in the water. You stared down at the thick black line scrolling steadily beneath you, and all you heard was the rush of water past your ears, and a life that at times felt cosmically complicated was reduced to the simplest elements: oxygen, buoyancy, propulsion.

I'll tell you who has a lot of money, and that's Manny. I mean, that kid is RICH. A few weeks ago Mom and Dad told Manny they'd give him a quarter for every time he uses the potty without being asked. So now he carries around a gallon of water with him at all times.

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Water freezes in rock cracks and crevices and expands, increasing its volume by 9% (and exerting a force of about 2000 pounds per square inch) as it turns to ice. Hot weather causes the surfaces of rock to expand, while the inner rock, just a millimeter away, remains cool and stable. As the outer layer pulls away, cracks form, and the surface peels off into smaller particles.

She was sitting in a beach chair, facing the lit-up buildings across the water.

Always that riptide compulsion dragging you down into the water, that need to know overriding the fear.

Place this salt in water and bring it here tomorrow morning. The boy did. Where is that salt? his father asked? I do not see it. Sip here. How does it taste? Salty, father. And here? And there? I taste salt everywhere. It is everywhere, though we see it not. Just so, dear one, the Self is everywhere, within all things, although we see it not. There is nothing that does not come from it. It is the truth; it is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu. You Are That.

Soft hissing waves run over my toes. The floor is a beach and I am rolling on the sand and splashing in the water with a white heron. It turns gray and blue. No one can stop this. No one will take away my radiance even when it floods over me completely.

A teacher of meditation once told the story of a man who wanted nothing to do with the stress of life, so he retreated to a cave to meditate day and night for the rest of his life. But soon he came out again, driven to overwhelming distress by the sound of the dripping of water in his cave. The moral is that, at least to some extent, the stresses will always be there

Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes.

Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Pliny the Elder wrote once: "If anyone will consider the abundance of Rome's public supply of water, for baths, cisterns, ditches, houses, gardens, villas; and take into account the distance over which it travels, the arches reared, the mountains pierced, the valleys spanned—he will admit that there never was anything more marvelous in the whole world.

What is the scent of water? Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

He burst from the water. He was facing her now. The muscles bunched on his arms as he slicked his wet, shoulder-length hair back from his face. The mist swirled amber over the surface of the water, adorning his gleaming skin as if he were the tributary god of this ruined garden. Her pity evaporated, burned away by the sudden realization that she had it all wrong. He was… She swallowed. Good Lord. He was magnificent.

the expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw ... was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind.

At night the bottom of the valley looks like water, and the lamps in the little town lying along it like quivering reflections of the stars.

water was running down from the glaciers high above. A moment later all six were on their knees, drinking.

He had originally hoped to use this place only as a stopover to replenish their water and to obtain a few days' rest

It was an utterly carefree journey as the Caird drove smartly across the sparkling water.

as nowhere else on earth, the sea girdles the globe

It connects the hazardous Drake Passage with the waters of the Weddell Sea—and it is a treacherous place.

and because of the shortage of blubber for fuel to melt ice into water