Water Fountain Quotes

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

  Charles Mackay

  Mother, Rain, Rivers

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Return, Fountain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.252

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

  John Updike

  Life, Rain, Sky

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Fishing, Rivers

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

  Langston Hughes

  Rain, Kissing, Water

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

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• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

  Lyall Watson

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co

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• Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

  Owen Feltham

  Water, Ink, Fountain

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• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

  Norman Maclean

  Running, Time, Rain

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Spring, Fall, Rivers

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• Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

  Charles G.D. Roberts

  Water, Masters, Very Good

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• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Home, Journey, Ice Water

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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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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Parenting, Bitterness

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• The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Rain, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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• Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

  Francis of Assisi

  Rain, Humble, Rivers

  "Catholicism & Orthodox Christianity". Book by Stephen F. Brown, Khaled Anatolios, p.54, 2009.

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• Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

  William Ashworth

  Children, Rain, Rivers

  William Ashworth (1982). “Nor any drop to drink”

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• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Thinking, Rivers

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 1 (1941)

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• 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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