Water Quote Challenge

My Favorite Water Quotes

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• "Water is the only drink for a wise man." - Henry David Thoreau
• "Water is the driver of nature." - Leonardo da Vinci
• "Our bodies are molded rivers." - Novalis
• "By means of water, we give life to everything." - Koran, 21:30
• "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water." - Benjamin Franklin
• "If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water." - Loren Eisley
• "You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you." - Heraclitus of Ephesus
• "Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water." - Zen saying
• "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." - Steven Wright
• "Man is a complex being; he makes deserts bloom and lakes die" - Gil Stern
• "A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable." - William Wordsworth
• "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one." - Jacques Cousteau
• "A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart." - William Shakespeare
• "Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
• "A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing." - Proverb from Liberia
• "Water, I love you. Water, I thank you. I give you my respect. Now the water of this (fill in with your fave body of water) and the waters of the world return to original purity." - Masaru Emoto
• "Red rain is coming down, red rain. Red rain is falling down, falling down all over me." - Peter Gabriel
• "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it." - Lao Tzu
• "Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• "Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday" - Zora Neale Hurston
• "A little water is a sea to an ant" - Afghan Proverb
• "In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference" - Rachel Carson
• "The principle of Judo is like the nature of water. Water flows to a balanced level. It has no shape of its own but molds itself to the receptacle that contains it. Its surge is irresistible and it permeates everything. It has existed and will exist as long as time and space. When heated to the state of steam it is invisible, but has enough power to split the earth itself. When frozen it crystallizes into a mighty rock. Its services are boundless and its uses endless. First it is turbulent like the Niagara Falls, and then calm like a still pond, fearful like a torrent, and refreshing like a spring on a hot day. So is the principle of Judo." - Gunji Koizumi
• "All the waters run to the sea and yet the sea is not full, and from the place where they began, thither they return again." - Ecclesiastes
• "Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science." - John F. Kennedy
• "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." - W.H. Auden
• "The noblest of the elements is water" - Pindar, 476 B.C.
• "A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes