Water Quotes

Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

Ralph Kine

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work.

Frank Zappa, Interview with this submitter, New York City, 5/08/1980

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Prove

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Lakes, rivers, streams... all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Muhammed Ali, in a television interview

Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.

Spider - Man

Streets full of water; please advise.

Robert Benchley

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam James Ervin, Jr.

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Josef Stalin

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Post - Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Charles Krauthamme

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Oscar Wilde

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.

Lao Tzu

An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.

John J. Sirica

What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Ovid

Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.

Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Lorraine Buckley

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - Absolutely no one - Is above the law.

Leon Jaworski

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Muhammad Ali

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn? t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02 - 14 - 2003