Water Quotes - Page 16

• I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

  Stuart Pearce

  Buckets, Sometimes, Film

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• When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

  Georg Trakl

  White, Childhood, Pool

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• Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

  Robert Tisserand

  Powerful, Healing, Oil

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• When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Horse, Fall, Waiting

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• I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

  Yann Martel

  Sea, Perfection, Wish

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• The willow tree plays the water like a harp.

  Ramon Gomez de la Serna

  Play, Tree, Harps

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• Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

  Carol Browner

  Air, Cleanliness, Expenses

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• Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Elements, Tranquility, Mood

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• Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.

  Christopher Peterson

  Phones, People, Phone Calls

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• An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Anxiety, Inability

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Believe, Views, Kind

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• The sky is one whole, the water another

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Sky, Whole

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

  Tom Dreesen

  Family, Hot, Matter

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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• I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Beach, Writing, Adversity

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• All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Autumn, Lakes, Green Fields

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

  John Muir

  Stars, Animal, Cities

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

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• We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Land

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• If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

  Saint Basil

  Grace, Baptism, Spirit

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• I love the summer.... the warm weather, hangin out with friends, and swimmin in the warm water..... but most importantly grabin a glove and a ball and playin some softball in the heat.

  James Madison

  Summer, Softball, Weather

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• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sky, Dancing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1985). “The Yearling”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

  Rachel Carson

  Book, Writing, Sea

  Rachel Carson (1989). “The Sea Around Us”, p.24, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.

  Ai Weiwei

  Air, People, Politics

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• Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Liquid, Bitter

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