Drink Water Quotes

• In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Dirty Water, Ice Water

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Years, Kyoto

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Water, Suggestions

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Best Kiss, Liquid

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Water is the best of all things.

  Pindar

  Science, Rivers, Water

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• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.

  Bryan Cranston

  Drinking, Yoga, Sweat

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• A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rivers, Water, Paddling

  "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rain, Moving, Memorable

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• Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Fighting, Water

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• The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Land, Water, Environmental

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

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• Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Art, Rain, Color

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

  Jan Erik Vold

  Rain, Years, Rivers

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• Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Water

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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  Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Motivational, Strength

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Ice Water, Water Of Life

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• For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Science, Thinking

  Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge

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