Water Quotes - Page 88

Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

To fish in troubled waters.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.

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.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

Living in London, the water is really harsh, and my hair got so bad as soon as I moved there. But you can't really avoid that.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.