And there, on that road, that very minute, he started to play – the most lonesome music that them priests ever in their lives heard. It brought water out o’ their teeth, so it did.

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is...

I’m a fountain of knowledge, like a water fountain, only thirstier. And quenchier.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken,...

Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for air, coughing and gagging at the amount of water I sucked into my...

He wouldn’t call a glass of water half full or half empty; he’d assume it was poisoned and run away.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

When your neighbour’s house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was...

The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. …. The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great...

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

Love lets us ride on its back as if it were a camel. But you’ve got to water it, or it won’t grow into a healthy rose bush.

Water generates electricity and hence if we waste water, we will be in the dark world.

moo” into a glass of water, hoping to change the structure of each water molecule into the shape of a cow. I felt like drinking a steak.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and...

A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare...

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

no water can be touched like pain of pearl-if you touched one drop of tear

Above me I feel your lovemy GoddessFull of the promise that through youmy GoddessAll things ripen and come to fruitionmy GoddessAs the diaphanous boundary between worldsmy GoddessIs illuminated by the white light of your signmy...

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own...

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by...

The Mercy

In the desert, the only god is a well.

When we carry out our “religious duties” we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most...

It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape – a thinly occupied outer...

Blood is like water, to a vampire. And coffee is like blood, to a tired mosquito. And my love is like an itch—and a scratch.

How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, into touch, taste and fragrance. He thought he’d linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total...

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

I’m a farmer of love. Just add water.

I should have waited for you. It’s the biggest regret I have. I’m sorry I didn’t wait.

My tears are salty. I shouldn’t eat potato chips while drinking my Cry Water, because it only makes me thirstier for your love.

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won’t take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they’re usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they’ll go and live in peace together around the hot...

Do not seek water, get thirst.

The half of her that is underwater would like to beunder a desk, the head of her that is underwaterwould like to be fully immersed.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

It’s too short,’ she said, ‘ever so much too short.’ Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,...

If you’re really on top, you probably didn’t do that great, ’cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

Water shines under the sun. But the sun dries it. (Eau brille sous soleil – Qui pourtant l’assèche.)