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Quotes About Water

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Have I told you about Christ? Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
~ Robert Holdstock
Till Shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day. By my honor and the Light, my life will be a dagger for Sightblinder's heart. Until the Last Day, To Shayol Ghul itself.
~ Robert Jordan
Yes, that's the way of your kind, isn't it?" The Ogier's voice changed, as if he were quoting something. "Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
~ Robert Jordan
Rand calmed himself, finding peace, turning to Tam. He remembered, from his old memories, something from a book. The key to leadership is in the rippling waves. You could not find stillness on a body of water if there was turmoil underneath. Likewise, you could not find peace and focus in a group unless the leader himself had peace within.
~ Robert Jordan
Hasta que la luz se desvanezca, hasta que el agua se agote, hacia la Sombra con las mandíbulas comprimidas, gritando con desafío con la última exhalación, para escupir en el ojo del Cegador de la vista en el día final
~ Robert Jordan
Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.
~ Robert Jordan
According to UNICEF, if ninety school buses filled with preschoolers crashed every day with no survivors, the world would notice. Yet that's how many young children perish daily from impure water and inadequate sanitation.3 One
~ Robert Morgan
the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint of the water between the little banks, under the sky, and see the cow standing in the water upstream near the single leaning willow. And all at once you feel like crying. But the train is going fast, and almost immediately whatever you feel is taken away from you, too.
~ Robert Penn Warren
I'm not denying there's got to be a notion of right to get business done, but by God, any particular notion at any particular time will sooner or later get to be just like a stopper put tight in a bottle of water and thrown in a hot stove the way we kids used to do at school to hear the bang. The
~ Robert Penn Warren
Surfers learn to respect the change in the power of the waves and water with each change of season.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
~ L.M. Montgomery
After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.
~ L.M. Montgomery
That water looks as if it was smiling at me
~ L.M. Montgomery
How beautiful it was, lying embowered in the twilight of the old trees; the tips of the loftiest spruces came out in purple silhouette against the north-western sky of rose an amber; down behind it the Blair Water dreamed in silver; the Wind Woman had folded her misty bat-wings in a valley of sunset and stillness lay over the world like a blessing.
~ L.M. Montgomery
All night Famous Shoes sat listening. He heard the plover cry several more times, and rejoiced. Men lied often, but the plover only lied when it had eggs to protect; if the plover's nest was near, then water, too, was near. In the morning they could drink.
~ Larry McMurtry
She loved to put her hands in the water and repeat her mantra: "Just for today. Just for today I will choose water over alcohol. Just for today I will allow water to cleanse me, to purify me.
~ Laura Esquivel
Cattle did not have to be led to water. They came eagerly to the trough and drank while Almanzo pumped, then they hurried back to the warm barns, and each went to its own place. Each cow turned into her own stall and put her head between her own stanchions. They never made a mistake. Whether this was because they had more sense than horses, or because they had so little sense that they did everything by habit, Father did not know.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host. (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill. (Anita Blake)
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
A tall, thin fireman with a grey mustache watched me stride across the street. He was still wearing a helmet and coat in the July heat. Four others had stripped down to T-shirts with just the rubbery-looking pants on. Someone had sprayed them down with water. They looked like an ad for a beefcake wet T-shirt contest.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
We stop, swivel, pause in the middle of the Grand Canal. We're waiting for another water taxi to emerge from under a bridge, and once it's gone we pass through, the buses slipping past us, a gondola too, the gondolier angling his pole skillfully under the bridge; everyone seems to know how to get past everyone else with no obvious rules, no traffic lanes. "Imagine a pileup," Paige comments. "Everyone would drown.
~ Lauren Henderson
Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Our planet has been misnamed; it is the ocean planet.
~ Laurence Bergreen
City of Gold. City of Water. City of Faiths. Quien no ha visto Sevilla, runs a saying, no ha visto maravilla .
~ Laurence Bergreen
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson