Water Quotes - Page 33

• Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dark, Moon, Body

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak only of sedgy rivers, of daffodils and tulips whose roots they water, even to the free-flowing river that laves the rootlets of those sweet-scented flowers that people the milky way

  William Carlos Williams

  Sweet, Flower, Thinking

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.256, New Directions Publishing

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• so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, White, Red

  "The Red Wheelbarrow" l. 1 (1923)

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• But you I never understood,      Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon      Ages ago in waters cold.

  Sara Teasdale

  Secret, Age, Spirit

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.56, Рипол Классик

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• I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Glasses, Diamond

  Jules Verne (2013). “Jules Verne Selected Works: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Mysterious Island”, p.509, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Destiny, Men, Deep Water

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Thinking, Lakes

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Heart, Rivers, Lovely

  Hilaire Belloc (1962). “Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse”

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• Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Kissing, Love Is, Nests

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• Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Girl, Men, Giving

  Federico Garcia Lorca (2014). “Lorca Plays: 1: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Dona Rosita the Spinster”, p.169, A&C Black

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• The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.

  James G. Frazer

  Prayer, Swimming, Sea

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Mean, Space

  Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.324

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• The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle;The forswat meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine;The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall,And the full flockes are drivynge ore the plaine;Dashde from the cloudes the waters flott againe;The welkin opes; the yellow levynne flies;And the hot fierie smothe in the wide lowings dies.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Yellow, Hot, Cattle

  Thomas Chatterton (1842). “Poetical Works: With Notices of His Life, History of the Rowley Controversy, a Selection of His Letters and Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.141

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• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

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• Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Drinking, Men

  Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Equality, Feminist

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

  Plutarch

  Firsts, Dread

  "Symposiacs". Book by Plutarch, book VIII. Question IX. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

  Tad Williams

  Dream, Men, Doe

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.59, Penguin

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• Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Eye, Men

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• Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Women, Hands

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• The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Wall, Home

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Anger, Fire, Wind

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Press

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• Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Country, Book

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• If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?

  Hugh Prather

  Ocean, Mind, Would Be

  Hugh Prather (1982). “The Quiet Answer”, Main Street Books

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• The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

  Meher Baba

  Reality, Drug, Mirages

  "An analysis of the problems presented in the use of LSD" by Graham C. Taylor, M.D., www.unodc.org. January 1, 1967.

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