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He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life.
— Marilynne Robinson
She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water.
— Joseph Conrad
Lincoln felt like he'd dunked his head into a sink full of Pop Rocks and turned on the water.
— Rainbow Rowell
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
— Katherine Anne Porter
I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.
— Faith Hill
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
— Sophocles
Time is a face on the water
— Stephen King
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
— Queen Victoria
The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.
— Bernard Cornwell
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
— Marion Nestle
The sky was full of stars, and the stars reflected on the water like millions of tiny memories, distorted by the ripples and the waves.
— Shawn Mihalik
My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk.
— Fernando Pessoa
No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.
— The Silver Elves
Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?
— Michelle Moran
I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.
— Alice Temperley
and he really did love cooling off in the water...
— Bang On The Door
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.
— Marianne Moore
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
— Anthony De Mello
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
— John C. Reilly
Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.
— Fiona Paul
There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.
— Virginia Alison
Because he is looking at me the way a man dying of thirst might look at a cask of water, as if his very life depends on bringing me to his lips.
— Sherry D. Ficklin
If there are seeds of courage living in all of us, waiting to bloom, words are the sun and the water that cheer on those seeds to their fullness.
— Annie F. Downs
Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water.
— Sarah McLachlan
I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
— Jesse Ball
Noah's ark is on the tombstone of drowning desire and I am walking furiously on water.
— Malak El Halabi
You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
— Jacques Anquetil
When the sun shines o'er the loch and sparkles on the water like diamond drops, ye know one thing:somewhere there's a MacLean who is smilin'. — Karen Hawkins
For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them.
— Aldous Huxley
Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.
— Jon Foreman
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
— Frida Giannini
Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news and know what is going on among the peoples of the land as quick as water flows, or quicker.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
That's easy. Any man who cannae keep his balls oot o' the water needs tae get laid. Come on, let's find my sister.
— Steve Alten
Consider the impact of your personal care choices on our health, water supply and our wider environment.
— Joanna Runciman
Now, the water is off more than it's on.
— Candace George Thompson
The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The
— Ross Macdonald
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
— Camille Paglia
When doing sports ... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
— Christie Brinkley
Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.
— Steve Allen
For our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.
— Craig Groeschel
Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?
— John Hiatt
Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The
— Sarah J. Maas
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
— Janine Benyus
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
— Cathie Pelletier
Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.
— Gene Hackman
I'm Mozart with a focus on the tideHiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine — Aesop Rock
Come on in. The water's fine.
— Jason Medina
I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.
— Duane Allman
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
— Paul Schullery
I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.
— Michael Lee West
Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.
— Nicholas Sparks
Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever
— Rebecca West
Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.
— Jonathan Maberry
Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.
— Michael Scott
I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.
— Jason Priestley
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.
— Xavier Becerra
The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.
— Ridley Pearson
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
— George Eliot
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
— Charles Olson
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
— Vernon Howard
