You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses.

Water flows, but never changes. It’s always H2O.

The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. (L’eau ne brille que par le soleil. – Et c’est toi qui es mon soleil.)

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

When you control their water, you control the people.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it...

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where...

Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one…I can well believe it.

The world may be running out of water, but it isn’t running low on music. Let the dancing flow!

I don’t shower because water is the most corrosive element. Ever seen what it does to rock? I want a chiseled body, but I don’t want it to look like the Grand Canyon.

I think you’ll find that in the long run, marathons are more of a sprint. So it is with my love, and no matter how many times you flush, the water level remains constant.

If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming the water near the fire about as much as it would have been...

Organic life cannot be far from water.

It’s true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

I wish to go down under the waters—the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe...

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his...

Beneath the water, I can know her. She was fierce, uncompromising. When she loved, she loved deeply, passionately. She loved the blue-eyed water god. She owned him. His heart.But then she felt betrayal, she hated,...

Walking on water is easy if you know where to step.

I’m basically a know-it-all, and I’m writing a book about it. I want it to be called ‘Danson on Water’ and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

Please stop shaking your rain water in my direction. What next? Are you going to come over here, cock your leg and urinate upon my person?

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than...

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world’s great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will...

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.

The only drink I like ice in is water, because you can’t water down water. I’m like that with love, too. Don’t you dare add any ice to the hot liquid loving I’m trying to...

Of course, if I had misbehaved that day, my dinner was a salad made entirely out of iceberg lettuce, with water on top instead of dressing. It was like cabbage soup without the dignity.

A flowing flurry of flowers fell to the floor when I fell in love, as if my heart were a garden that gushed forth and flooded her being with the fragrance of romance.

I’m not a water guy.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China’s continued...

The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered.

We’re like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water – we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

She listened to the soft splashing sound when the water met the bank. It took just a few moments before she was able to completely fade out the smell of pollution and inhaled the salty...

fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.

if your child swallows more than the recommended amount, contact a poison control center.”The amount that they’re talking about, the recommended amount, which is a pea-sized amount, is equivalent to one glass of water.The FDA...

I enjoy snorkelling, water sports and paragliding.

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost’s poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not...

People are like water: Many rush pass you, as some will over-flood. Some will drown you, or force you to go their current ways. Some will be cold or hot-tempered, but try to say with...

Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water’s edge, diving into summer’s heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any...

You don’t know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

It’s January and I’m kicking snow off the ground. I just threw out the flower you made me promise to water, handle with care, because I was too careless, you said. Careless with things and...

The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

I drink special water, because not all water is equal. Some water is smarter and taller and more handsome than other water.