Quotes
Quotes about Water
She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
A great ship askes deepe waters. [A great ship asks deep waters.]
Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Jesus saw a man use his hand to cup water from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingers and Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb. from The Islamic Jesus.
Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.
O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke To melt myself away in water drops!
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity.
I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.
It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]
The dousing wand The lightning rod Conductor's baton Will's aligned spine They find the water, invoke the lightning attract the music and summon angels' aid.
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 timesâin water, in butter and in wine.
Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. (Tar Water.)
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.
