Water Quotes - Page 38

• I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

  Joan Rivers

  Luck, Type, Lourdes

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• People, like water, seek their own level.

  Ann Landers

  People, Levels

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fate, Swim, May

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

  Rose Macaulay

  Thinking, Important, Ponds

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• Stand here by my side and turn, I pray,
  On the lake below thy gentle eyes;
  The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray,
  And dark and silent the water lies;
  And out of that frozen mist the snow
  In wavering flakes begins to flow;
  Flake after flake,
  They sink in the dark and silent lake.

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Eye, Dark

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• There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.

  S. J. Perelman

  Home, Aquariums, Teeth

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• Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Dream, Monday, Heart

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Writing, Levels, Way

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• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Happiness, Heart, Men

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• The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"
  And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved
  From wild America to Bosphor's waters,
  And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines
  Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me,
  And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue,
  And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul,
  Sitting amid their ruins.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Travel, Art, Dust

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

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• Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Anger, Rage, Fishes

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life, Pain, Passion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts
  Against their father, fool me not so much
  To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,
  And let not women's weapons, water drops,
  Stain my man's cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, Anger

  William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Once my husband said to me, 'I'm going to have some coffee. Do you want me to put some hot water on for you?' I thought that was the least he could do considering I was giving birth.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Coffee, Giving

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• Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.

  Charles Lamb

  Angel, Giving, Charity

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.138

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• We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.

  Denise Levertov

  Time, Breathe, Fishes

  Denise Levertov, Paul A. Lacey (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.161, New Directions Publishing

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• How joyously the young sea-mew
  Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
  Whereon our little bark had thrown
  A little shade, the only one;
  But shadows ever man pursue.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Men, Blue

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.581, Delphi Classics

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• Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Color, Noise

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Kids, Boys

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

  Erma Bombeck

  Laughter, Holiday, Play

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.11, Fawcett

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• The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

  Victor Hugo

  Land, Darkness, Deeper

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.104, 谷月社

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• A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wine, Giving, Should

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

  William Penn

  Men, Bitterness, Calm

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• What is harder than stone?
  What more soft than water?
  Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

  Ovid

  Rocks, Stones, Wave

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• The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting, fighting all the way, trying to swim back up the stream, longing for the shores that they have passed, clutching at anything to retard their progress, frightened by the onward rush of the strong current and in danger of being overwhelmed by the waters. Others go with the current freely, trusting themselves to the buoyancy of the water.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Strong, Fighting, Years

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1997). “Saving Graces: The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder”, B & H Publishing Group

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