Water Quotes

“In the desert, the only god is a well.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“The night stayed outside. She was surprised. She opened her mouth but no sound came out. Instead, blue things flew in, pieces of glass or tin, or necklaces of blue diamond, perhaps. The air was the blue of a pool when there are shadows, when clouds cross the turquoise surface, when you suspect something contagious is leaking, something camouflaged and disrupted. There is only this infected blue enormity, elongating defiantly. The blue that knows you and where you live and it's never going to forget.”
― Kate Braverman

“What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")”
― Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

“In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.”
― Sue Ellen Campbell

“He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away. ”
― Michael Reisman, Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper

“I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.”
― Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

“In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States.”
― Susan Quinn, Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

“The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine transfer of waste from on place to another. It also considers the accompanying organic material to be of little or no value. The "new school", on the other hand, sees water as a dwindling, precious resource that should not be polluted with waste; organic materials are seen as resources that should be constructively recycled. My research for this chapter included reviewing hundreds of research papers on alternative wastewater systems. I was amazed at the incredible amount of time and money that has gone into studying how to clean the water we have polluted with human excrement. In all of the research papers, without exception, the idea that we should simply stop defecating in water was never suggested.”
― Joseph C. Jenkins, The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

“In every gust of wind, ripple of water, spark of fire, and firmness of the earth, lies the wisdom of life and the pathway to understanding.”
― Angell Deer

“Lorca’s Spain: A Homage”

Beginning with olive trees.
Shadows.
Beginning with roosters.
Crystal.
Beginning with castanets & almonds.
Fishes.
This is a homage to Spain.
This mists dogs.
This silences rubber.
This is Saturn.
Beginning with yellow.
Eclipse.
Beginning with needles.
Insomnia.
Beginning with baskets.
The Moon.
Who is naked? The imagination
(wrote Lorca) is seared.
This is a homage to water.
Beginning & end.”
― Jerome Rothenberg, The Lorca Variations

“Another bad sign - someone or something had turned vodka into water. This was not my preferred kind of miracle.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I have, Brian thought, always been wet.
Always
Even my soul is wet.”
― Gary Paulsen, The River

“In a captive environment, why wish for the union? A caged bird remembers no water or food.”
― Habibullah Bulbul

“Microplastics and nano-plastics are found everywhere in us and the environment. Now microplastics have been found in sediments which have not seen human habitation for hundreds of years. So how did they get there?
If both microplastics and nano-plastics can invade all of our bodily systems through pores and filters within the body, the same can be said for the natural filtering systems of different rock layers.
No difference from us except we think rock is rock is less able to do it because it's denser. The trouble is that rain is so contaminated with these plastics that they are carried through the rain into the ground water and the subsequently through the different rock layers.
So, now we have contaminated groundwater, not only from chemicals, but also plastics as well. And as you all know, we drink 'fresh' ground water because it's so natural.
Well, maybe not so natural now.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Every raindrop that falls, every sigh that you press in your depths, holds a story inside that the river carries with the burst of emotions and there comes the tide of poems for the river knows no bounds...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“There is never too much water under the bridge if the bridge is still standing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the bridge of communication is solid, then they’ll never be too much water under the bridge that lays upstream.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

“The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You will meet that one person that will, in their absence, make you question yourself why you've neglected yourself and the extents you went to try to fix a leaking ocean instead of cleansing it.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Blood is thicker than water, and twice as cheap.”
― Frances Wren, Earthflown

“Bubble baths are good. But why not soak your body in aqua infused with sonic waves provided by waterproof speakers pulsing the healing music of Enya? That's what my ducks swim in, and that's why they taste like Amelia Earhart's final flight.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Earth, water, and sky—ducks are birds of those three elements. And their passion for play embodies the fourth—fire.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“I drank all the water in my thermos, and it is empty. That means the water is in me, and I have become the thermos. I’m like Stanley, only not as popular.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“My favorite drink is water. That's because I can swim in it. I learned that from ducks.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“The blood which it is mixed with water you will not get benefit from it.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The mind evolved in the sea. Water made it possible.”
― Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness

“If you have ever seen the sun, go down over water, you have seen a beautiful thing.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“In a captive environment, why wish for the union? A caged bird remembers no water or food.”
― Habibullah Bulbul - حبیب الله بلبل

“Black holes, blue holes, bottomless bodies of wate,. Exploding stars, event horizons, a place so dark light get out once it's in”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places