Water Quotes - Page 15

• Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

  Claude Monet

  Insane, Trying, Looks

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• I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Done, Weaving

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• These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Reflection, Age, Landscape

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

  Ken Robinson

  University Professors, Achievement, Form

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• Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Autumn, Past, Wind

  Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Winter, Car, Locks

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• As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

  Pamela Anderson

  Baby, Pain, Cutting

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• If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Flower, Thinking, Hoe

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wind, Sun, Quiet

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.666, Delphi Classics

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• Water colours are wet colours in water.

  David Hockney

  Colour, Wet

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• How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

  Barbra Streisand

  Men, Air, People

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• The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Communication, Reality

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• Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

  Robert Greene

  Running, Courage, Shallow

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Teacher, Teaching, Water Of Life

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• The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

  Ramakrishna

  Ego, Doe, Wave

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  Ramakrishna

  Bird, Skins, World

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

  John Constable

  Grateful, Escaping, Sound

  Letter to John Fisher, 23 October 1821, in C. R. Leslie 'Memoirs of the Life of John Constable' (1843) ch. 5

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• Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

  Frederick Marryat

  Ocean, Rivers, Salt

  Frederick Marryat (1873). “Jacob Faithful”, p.1

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• Best fishing in troubled waters.

  John Harington

  Fishing, Troubled Waters

  "Orlando Furioso". 1591.

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• Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!

  Tom Lehrer

  Hippie, Air, Breathe

  "Pollution" (song) (1965)

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• Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

  Susan Glaspell

  Judging, Criticism, Sail

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• Always make water when you can.

  Duke of Wellington

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• You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Thinking, Glasses, Drink

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• The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, Greed, Thirsty

  Thomas Adams (2013). “The Sermons of Thomas Adams: The Shakespeare of Puritan Theologians”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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