Water Quotes - Page 139

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed on the site proposed and examined their livers. If the livers of the first victims were dark-coloured or abnormal, they sacrificed others, to see whether the fault was due to disease or their food. They never began to build defensive works in a place until after they had made many such trials and satisfied themselves that good water and food had made the liver sound and firm, healthfulness being their chief object.

The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.

From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.

Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals - lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material - suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be continuous because the reactions which started it are renewed incessantly.

The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.

Mitt Romney got 59 percent of the white vote in 2012, considered by many to be a high-water mark with this demographic group. Can [Donald] Trump win a higher share of white voters than Romney and get more of them to turn out?

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

I'll cook the water.

I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.