Water Quotes

What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, And filled the river with the green hillside; The hill-tops waver in the rippling water, Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape In thy clear crystal.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius



Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen; Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
William Cullen Bryant



A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
Sir Thomas Browne



By my faith, the water will go to whichever army is more steadfast and more deserving.
al-Walid, Khalid ibn



Craftsmanship isnt like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until its empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
Lloyd Chudley Alexander



Winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep.
William Allingham



Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other.
Simon Armitage



And I dream in the morning that she brings me water And I dream in the evening that she brings me wine Just a poor man's daughter from Puerta Piasco South of the border, in old Mexico.
Hoyt Wayne Axton



Through centuries of centuries, fire and water face each other; the fire, upright, buoyant and leaping; the water flat, creeping, gliding, widening its lines and its surface. When they touch, is it the water which hisses and roars, or is it the fire?
Henri Barbusse



That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
Alan Bennett



Yeah, then we ran out of water. For three weeks we couldn't even take a bath.
Jack Benny



Tar water is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.
George Berkeley



If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.
Lewis Niles Black



Turn away no more; Why wilt thou turn away? The starry floor, The watery shore,> Is given thee till the break of day.
William Blake



Inside Im treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.
Drake