Water Quotes

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit. ?

Jarod Kintz

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.

Santosh Kalwar

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Nicholas Sparks

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mark Twain

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

Barbara Hurd

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jane Austen

So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.

Qur'an

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike

Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

Dame Edith Sitwell

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Samuel Butler

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another. The gathering in of the clouds with the last rush and dying breath of the wind, and then the regular dripping of twigs and leaves the country over, the impression of inward comfort and Sociableness, the drenched stubble and trees that drop beads on you as you pass, their dim outline seen through the rain on all sides drooping in sympathy with yourself. These are my undisputed territory. This is Nature's English comfort.

Henry David Thoreau

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

LaoTzu

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Kahlil Gibran

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I

Theodore White

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

Water flows humbly to the lowest level.Nothing is weaker than water,Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,Nothing surpasses it.

LaoTzu, Tao Te Ching