Quotes About Water

Water is the oil of the twenty-first century," declared Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow, a chemical company.

In January 2012, the China Investment Corporation bought a 8.68 percent investment in Thames Water, the largest water utility in England, serving parts of the Greater London area, Thames Valley, and Surrey. In November of that year

From birth my tongue has had a fire for communication with trees and dirt and water

Her dread of fire was almost as strong as her fear of deep water. She wasn't so much afraid of dying as she was of pain. If they had to die, she just hoped it wouldn't hurt too much. Or for too long.

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

We struggle to maintain a dead past in the name of peace and refuse the new life that running water brings to everything. We confuse "stagnant" with "calm" and call it holiness. We miss the power of the paradox that peace is not passivity and that a living death is neither death nor life.

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

she was a little frightened that first afternoon. There seemed such a huge expanse of water and sky, and so little of herself.

It was one of those still, grey, pearly days, with no wind, when sky and water seemed to merge into one, and everything was soft and sad and dreamy.

May was used to strange things like this. Her mom always said all sorts of quirks came with a house as old as theirs. May used to insist it was ghosts. But Mrs. Bird had long ago given her one too many stern looks on the topic. So May simply sank beneath the water and let bubbles drift out of her nose.

There upon the water was a large ship, a skeleton against the sky, collapsed and flailing into the rocks close to shore, broken apart and drowning. The scene was all deep blues and grays and whites and the wild waves lifting it all like deep gasping breaths.

Lake Mendota was a rippled silver, like a vast piece of silk spread out but had not yet been smoothed.

The murmur of the limpid stream.

It was nearly midnight, and the stillness that reigned was rather soothed than interrupted by the gentle dashing of the waters of the bay below, and by the hollow murmurs of Vesuvius, which threw up, at intervals, its sudden flame on the horizon, and then left it to darkness.

At night I dream of swimming, my arms move smoothly through the water it is so easy, so calm.

That is why we love this city – Dark and stern, and full of water, And we love our separations, And brief moments when we meet.

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing. Mignonette smells of water Love smells of apples And now we know Blood smells of blood.

With pride your spirit is darkened For this you won't know the world at all. You say that this faith is a dream And mirage is this capital. You say that my country is sinful, Your country is godless, I scream. May the guilt still lie upon us -- We can correct and redeem. Around you are water and flowers Why seek a beggar and sinner, my dear? I know that you're sick very badly: You seek death and the end you fear.

completely. Meanwhile, bring another pan of salted water to the boil and blanch the broccoli for 1 minute, drain and pat completely dry with kitchen paper.

The creature laughed with a sound like water splashing softly on pebbles.

A nixie, poor ignorant girl child, is a sprite of the water.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside;