Water Quotes - Page 11

• But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in our streams. Many waterways are covered with oil slicks and contain growths of algae that destroy productive life and make the water unfit for recreation. "Polluted Water-No Swimming" has become a familiar sign on too many beaches and rivers. A lake that has served many generations of men now can be destroyed by man in less than one generation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beach, Swimming, Men

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• How very wet this water is.

  L. Frank Baum

  Wet

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Adventures in Oz”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.

  Walter Russell

  Uplifting, Believe, Ocean

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• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Writing, Gossip, Criticism

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

  Dan Millman

  Sea, Simplicity, Mind

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.124, New World Library

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• Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

  Walter Raleigh

  Music, Rain, Passion

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.394

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• According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Lying, Rain, Mirrors

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• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

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• We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

  Robert Kennedy

  Government, Done, Levels

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• Till last by Philip's farm I flow
  To join the brimming river,
  For men may come and men may go,
  But I go on for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  'The Brook' (1855) l. 33

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• He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

  Sydney Smith

  Funny, Children, Humor

  1834 Letter to Lady Grey,19 Nov.

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• Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Rain, Mirrors, Sky

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• The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

  William Beebe

  Men, Rivers, Mosquitoes

  William Beebe (1927). “The Log of the Sun”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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• It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

  Plautus

  Digging, Thirst, Wells

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 862-63, Mostellaria, II. 1. 32, 1922.

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• Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

  Ovid

  Stones, Dropping, Constant

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• The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
  When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
  The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Nature, Real, Drinking

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.38, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson

  Quoted in Fortune, 14 Sept. 1987

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• The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

  John Stuart Blackie

  Wise, Men, Firsts

  John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

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• When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither is the ultimate solution, simply because floods are caused by the flow of water downhill. If the hills are wooded, that flow is checked. If there is a swamp at the foot of the hills, the swamp sponges up most of the excess water, restores some of it to the underground water supply and feeds the remainder slowly into the streams. Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

  Hal Borland

  Running, Thinking, Rivers

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• If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wine, Humble, Glasses

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Sweet, Believe

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Beach, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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