Water Quotes

‘You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.’ – W. H. Auden

‘Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.’ – W. C. Fields

‘To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.’ – Alan Watts

‘On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar – one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You’re out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You’re going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I’ll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.’ – Stan Laurel

‘Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.’ – Lao Tzu

‘This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘If the world was ending, I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a bunch of water, and I’d probably just… I’d probably go crazy.’ – Tyler, The Creator

‘Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.’ – Groucho Marx

‘Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.’ – Christopher Morley

‘Water is life, and clean water means health.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.’ – Loren Eiseley

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ – Karen Blixen

‘Because no matter who we are or where we come from, we’re all entitled to the basic human rights of clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and healthy land to call home.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.’ – John W. Gardner

‘I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.’ – Steven Wright

‘No water, no life. No blue, no green.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.’ – Fidel Castro

‘I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.’ – Ray Charles

‘Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.’ – Nat Wolff

‘The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.’ – Dean Ornish

‘Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘Being a fish out of water is tough, but that’s how you evolve.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.’ – John Lubbock

‘You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.’ – Alok Sharma

‘Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Good words cool more than cold water.’ – John Ray

‘Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.’ – Rumi

‘The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.’ – Sophocles

‘For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.’ – David Suzuki

‘You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.’ – DJ Khaled

‘Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.’ – Stephen Curry

‘The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.’ – William Blake

‘Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘I drink a lot of water.’ – SZA

‘To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.’ – Carlos Castaneda

‘Don’t be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.’ – Kim Young-ha

‘Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.’ – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

‘There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.’ – Chris Rock

‘Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.’ – John Muir

‘A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.’ – George Foreman

‘To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.’ – John Burroughs

‘If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.” – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.’ – Henry David Thoreau

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

‘I couldn’t sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.’ – Richard Quest

‘God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!’ – Joyce Meyer

‘All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.’ – Toni Morrison

‘We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.’ – Peter Benchley

‘If you put a frog in boiling water, it’ll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it’ll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England’s gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.’ – John Niven

‘The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.’ – Klaus Schwab

‘Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.’ – Kevin R. Stone

‘I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.’ – David Bowie

‘Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words.’ – Octavio Paz

‘My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.’ – Carl Hiaasen

‘The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.’ – Indra Devi

‘Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.’ – Victor Webster

‘It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.’ – Dan Quayle

‘An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do – it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.’ – Hugh Ross

‘I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people’s hearts.’ – Rigoberta Menchu

‘I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.’ – Unknown

‘Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it’s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.’ – Alain de Botton

‘I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘People come to me and say, ‘What’ll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?’ You don’t have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, ‘How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!” – Eugenie Clark

‘Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.’ – Mark Twain

‘I’ve always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.’ – K. Flay

‘Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.’ – Michael Faraday

‘Out of the water, I am nothing.’ – Duke Kahanamoku

‘The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Blue is the color of peace. Water is blue. I like the color blue because it just puts me at peace. The patriotic symbol is blue. I just like blue.’ – Antonio Brown

‘Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.’ – Raymond Carver

‘All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed – the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?’ – Diane Lane

‘The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time – 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn’t have toilets in the fields; they didn’t have cold drinking water. They didn’t have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.’ – Stewart Udall

‘Scalded cats fear even cold water.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.’ – Kate Chopin

‘For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.’ – Marcus Samuelsson

‘Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.’ – Chris Long

‘You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!’ – Sai Baba

‘The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy – they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.’ – Rick Perry

‘No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.’ – Horace

‘Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.’ – William Osler

‘Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘There’s a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?’ – M. Night Shyamalan

‘Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.’ – Winona LaDuke

‘The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.’ – Wendell Berry

‘We want transportation as reliable as running water.’ – Travis Kalanick

‘The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.’ – Plautus

‘Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it’s earth, it’s water, and – with fire – it takes on form and life.’ – Rithy Panh

‘Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.’ – Dave Barry

‘I loved playing every sport. Soccer, water polo, horses. Whatever. I just loved it – especially competing against my brothers.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.’ – Emily Bronte

‘I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.’ – Josh Billings

‘A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That’s the most important thing.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us! – Douglas Fairbanks’ – Douglas Fairbanks

‘The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.’ – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

‘There’s nothing greener than Washington state. They have the most beautiful vegetation on the planet. And the water is so clean.’ – Fabio Lanzoni

‘There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.’ – Lucretius

‘It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.’ – Hayao Miyazaki

‘A century ago, petroleum – what we call oil – was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.’ – James Buchan

‘Friendship and money: oil and water.’ – Mario Puzo

‘Give me 30 minutes rest, little drink of water. Give me 30 minutes, and I can fight with anybody.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov

‘You’ll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.’ – Robin Williams

‘A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘Being on a boat that’s moving through the water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.’ – James Taylor

‘By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.’ – Aeschylus

‘Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.’ – Colin Powell

‘The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.’ – Pamela Hansford Johnson

‘I’m so sick of the water.’ – Michael Phelps

‘Fresh, clean water cannot be taken for granted. And it is not – water is political, and litigious. Transporting water is impractical for both political and physical reasons, so buying up water rights did not make a lot of sense to me, unless I was pursuing a greater fool theory of investment – which was not my intention.’ – Michael Burry

‘If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.’ – Ellen Swallow Richards

‘A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water!’ – Donovan

‘After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.’ – Tae Yoo

‘When you prepare for something, it’s like jumping into cold water, but you’re prepared. You jump in. And you start swimming, or if you don’t swim, you drown.’ – Rza

‘Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.’ – Barbara Kingsolver

‘I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.’ – Amy Tan

‘Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.’ – Benjamin Rush

‘You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water – an inch deep and then the mud.’ – George MacDonald

‘Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.’ – Jack Welch

‘Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don’t know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what’s going on down there.’ – Cameron Bright

‘A lot of Washington state is beautiful. You have just tons of mountains, beautiful bodies of water, you have a lot of rolling hills in eastern Washington. I’m biased, obviously, but there’s not a lot of places in the world that are like where I grew up.’ – Joe Harris

‘Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.’ – Brendan I. Koerner

‘Anyone can take the wheel of the ship in calm water but it’s not so easy when it’s not calm water. You can’t just enjoy the good times, you have to be resilient in the tough times.’ – Sean Dyche

‘Sure, we’ve had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don’t know if we’ve had more than any other rock band… we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.’ – Carl Wilson

‘Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.’ – Henry Williamson

‘Forget bottled water; tap water is just as good! Pour it into a reusable water bottle, and always have fresh water on the go without wasting plastic.’ – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

‘Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.’ – George Grey

‘Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘The tools and technologies we’ve developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘I pretty much only drink water, Tazo passion tea, or coffee with half and half, and it’s an ongoing joke in the office that I never have less than three glasses of water and some form of tea or coffee in front of me.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.’ – Aesop

‘I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.’ – Guillermo del Toro

‘The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don’t care what anybody says. We don’t think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.’ – Fred Hampton

‘As AI becomes the new infrastructure, flowing invisibly through our daily lives like the water in our faucets, we must understand its short- and long-term effects and know that it is safe for all to use.’ – Kate Crawford

‘Human civilization has been changing the Earth’s environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.’ – Jamais Cascio

‘In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air.’ – Jonathan Raban

‘With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out.’ – Elon Musk

‘O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.’ – Chanakya

‘There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.’ – Alan Clark

‘The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Lemonade is not just made of lemons. It’s barely lemons! It’s mostly water and sugar! Life didn’t give us that.’ – Ryan Higa

‘I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.’ – David Suzuki

‘It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.’ – Alexander Graham Bell

‘Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.’ – Ovid

‘The Yucatan Peninsula is really worth the trip. The water is stunning and the beaches are true-white sand.’ – Bridget Marquardt

‘If you throw a frog in boiling water, he’ll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won’t notice and end up boiled.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you’re compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you’re making a statement about communities you don’t care about.’ – Tom Perez

‘You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.’ – W. C. Fields

‘The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.’ – Josh Fox

‘The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.’ – Marge Piercy

‘The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water – blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be – were enough to watch.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.’ – Herman Melville

‘The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn’t going to do any invasion with my face.’ – Diane von Furstenberg

‘A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water.’ – Chris Thile

‘The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It’s a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘There’s a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.’ – Kris Carr

‘The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.’ – Eric Butterworth

‘Drinking water to quench thirst instead of sugar-sweetened beverages is important for weight control, and overall health.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.’ – Bob Uecker

‘People don’t flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don’t have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don’t have basic things like water, education, health.’ – Nayib Bukele

‘Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we’re twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It’s bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.’ – Joan Didion

‘I have fruit juices, cucumber juice and coconut water to cool myself in the hot weather.’ – Lara Dutta

‘I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That’s good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.’ – Gal Gadot

‘I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that’s travelled.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘Water’s never clumsy.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘Water is the driving force of all nature.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘The first time you catch a fish, it’s amazing. You make contact with this whole other world that exists, hidden, under the water.’ – Jeremy Wade

‘I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don’t like water.’ – Philippe Petit

‘Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.’ – Alison Gopnik

‘The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn’t stop.’ – Gertrude Ederle

‘Everybody has an idea of the tsunami of being a big wave. It is not a big wave. It is a huge amount of water that comes to land.’ – Juan Antonio Bayona

‘It’s always great to see young swimmers and their excitement and the joy that they have in the water.’ – Katie Ledecky

‘It’s a relief to hear the rain. It’s the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.’ – Alice Oswald

‘Everyone deserves to have clean water.’ – Nyjah Huston

‘The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.’ – Rex Hunt

‘Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.’ – Frida Giannini

‘Hydration is key! I know that is an obvious one, but drinking tons of water and keeping your skin hydrated is very important.’ – Devon Windsor

‘Renewable energy means good paying jobs along with clean air and water.’ – Roy Cooper

‘If you take the right vitamins and drink enough water, your body flushes everything out for you.’ – Isabeli Fontana

‘I swim laps, which is nice because I’m weightless in the water.’ – Morena Baccarin

‘As soon as you step into the water, you are part of the food chain; you’re part of the wilderness. That’s why I like solo sailing. You can be macho, but at least you can be macho on your own.’ – Charles Ray

‘I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it’s the first place I’ll go.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going ‘Where did I say build a water slide?” – Sam Kinison

‘I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.’ – Sela Ward

‘Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘Droplets of water would roll around the surface of a lotus leaf and not leave any trace.’ – Zhou Qunfei

‘I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You’ll save money and save the environment, too.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘The results of inequity and bias impact everything from suspension rates, to housing access, to health outcomes, to medical interventions, to job opportunity and promotions, to criminal sentencing, and even to the very safety of the water one drinks and air one breathes.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘This is our country, our water. We’re entitled to a good life. It’s a human rights issue.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease – it’s really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

‘It’s like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.’ – Trombone Shorty

‘The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.’ – Michael Phelps

‘What is elegance? Soap and water! – Cecil Beaton’ – Cecil Beaton

‘For me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.’ – Victoria Beckham

‘The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.’ – Henryk Sienkiewicz

‘My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor’s guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: ‘Don’t enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.’ I feel childlike somehow.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘If it’s not Fiji water, we don’t want it.’ – Denzel Curry

‘When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.’ – John Keats

‘The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.’ – Nita Ambani

‘It is a proud tradition and fighting trait of our army and people to rise up like mountains and go through fire and water to unfailingly carry through the party’s orders and instructions.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in the 1990s was $4.25 an hour. And I grew up in public housing, in conditions of mold and mildew, leaks and lead, without reliable heat and hot water in the winter.’ – Ritchie Torres

‘There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it’s like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.’ – Bill Nye

‘I’ve never quite trusted water; I don’t think it’s entirely healthy.’ – James May

‘It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘We’re not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I’m not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don’t have food. They don’t have clean water. They don’t have electricity. They don’t have medicine. They don’t have doctors.’ – Cindy Sheehan

‘Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You’ve got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.’ – Jack Hanna

‘My father once said, ‘If you’re in the desert and you’re dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?’ I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.’ – Lewis Carroll

‘The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.’ – David Suzuki

‘I’m scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?’ – Robert Englund

‘The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park.’ – Wil S. Hylton

‘I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I’m trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it.’ – William Kamkwamba

‘To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you’ve set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.’ – Diane Greene

‘As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.’ – Catherine of Siena

‘I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.’ – Liam Neeson

‘I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous.’ – Antony Starr

‘I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning.’ – Mary Kay Andrews

‘Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.’ – Lowell Thomas

‘You know you’re big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.’ – Art Donovan

‘Zebra mussels like to hitch a ride on boats when they’re transferred from one body of water to another. It’s important to make sure to thoroughly clean your boat each time it leaves the water to ensure these invasive mussels are removed and that you are not spreading them to your next location.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.’ – Sebastian Koch

‘My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.’ – Robert Bresson

‘Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.’ – Will Steger

‘I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.’ – Rihanna

‘If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.’ – DJ Khaled

‘I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube’s twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.’ – Erno Rubik

‘I had daydreamed through many performances of Swan Lake, thinking the dancing tutus only ever conveyed one aspect of swans: their beauty gliding on water. I wondered what it would be like to use male dancers and bring out swans’ aggressive, muscular side.’ – Matthew Bourne

‘We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs, which is why Congress should reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘Art is transformative. It’s not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.’ – Sean Scully

‘In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they’re an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it’s the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.’ – John Ralston Saul

‘I really only drink water and coffee. Im not really a big juice person.’ – Renee Rapp

‘I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.’ – Victor Hugo

‘The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.’ – Jim Yong Kim

‘In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.’ – Joy Reid

‘There’s no excuse in 2019, with the wealth we have as a nation, with the technology we have as a country, that we cannot clean this water, ensure that all communities have clean drinking water.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘You can’t change the world; you can’t fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you’re brushing your teeth. You can do small things.’ – Patti Smith

‘I include lots of nutrients like Omega 3 fish oils in my diet, which work wonders for my skin, hair and nails. I also pack in the greens and drink lots of water, rather than choosing foods that make me feel lethargic.’ – Sussanne Khan

‘A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure – financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries – that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans.’ – Dan Coats

‘If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘It’s fairly easy to know when you’ve succeeded because you’re kind of hanging on for dear life. It’s such an unstoppable juggernaut; you’re trying to stay with your head above water because things are moving so fast.’ – Caterina Fake

‘Yes, the ’60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted: civil rights, the peace movement, the environmental movement, feminism. They’re big seeds. They take a long time to come to fruition. Please, let’s stop fighting, and get out our water cans.’ – John Densmore

‘I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.’ – Faith Hill

‘The water has always been a place of freedom, safety, but also feeling really strong and capable.’ – Jessica Long

‘Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there’s so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.’ – Peter Thiel

‘Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we’ve never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.’ – Alexander Lukashenko

‘We really have the most beautiful planet in our solar system. None other can sustain life like we know it. None other has blue water and white clouds covering colorful landmasses filled with thriving, beautiful, living things like human beings.’ – Sunita Williams

‘When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water… If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.’ – Constantin Brancusi

‘Noah walked with God; he didn’t only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn’t melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.’ – Charles Studd

‘At the end of the day, all I can be is me. I’m not John Cena. In my 30 years, I’ve never been John Cena. I don’t even think about becoming him. I just want to be – I want to be Roman Reigns. I want to do things my way. I think that’s why I’m in the deep water with Vince McMahon and ‘The Authority’.’ – Roman Reigns

‘Failure holds the seeds for greatness – so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels.’ – Joe Kaeser

‘There’s high, and there’s high, and to get really high – I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that’s where I’m going.’ – George Harrison

‘Don’t be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I’m paddling away like a duck beneath the water.’ – Katherine Kelly

‘For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that’s about it.’ – Matt Cameron

‘I will do water – beautiful, blue water.’ – Claude Monet

‘Strauss’ water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.’ – Ofra Strauss

‘The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘My secret is one the world needs to know – nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.’ – Bella Thorne

‘To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.’ – Jose Bergamin

‘I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often.’ – Lori Foster

‘I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.’ – W. C. Fields

‘One must eat fruit and drink water before meals rather than after eating. Water dilutes digestion, and that’s not a good thing for the body.’ – Jackie Shroff

‘We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.’ – S. Jay Olshansky

‘I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I’m very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.’ – Maggie Grace

‘Sleeping and water are lifesavers – that’s true beauty right there.’ – Sofia Boutella

‘I’m going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I’m sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they’re doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.’ – Michael Moore

‘People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.’ – Manoj Bhargava

‘It’s not called the low country for nothing, it’s literally at sea level. If we don’t start paying attention to conservation in our environment, the water levels are going to rise and those areas are going to start disappearing.’ – Madelyn Cline

‘In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.’ – Daniel D. Palmer

‘I’m not gonna try to defend, or undo what’s been done. All I could say about whatever’s been done, it’s been done, and it’s water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.’ – Ike Turner

‘I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.’ – Nina Simone

‘In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.’ – Lao Tzu

‘As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use – not only text or media but processing power too – will be located remotely.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?’ – Nicolas Chamfort

‘In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘We cannot sell out our public lands for destructive fossil fuel development that pollutes our air, water, and land.’ – Alex Padilla

‘A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.’ – Carl Reiner

‘The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident. If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘I was a terrible loser growing up. I took it far too seriously. There were water works if I lost. I would go home and break it down in angry detail: How did I lose? What could I do next time?’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘We’re at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren’t going to make it.’ – Henry Rollins

‘The only place I’ve felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There’s something in the water there that connects me to that place. There’s also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I’ve never been able to shake.’ – Jessica Lange

‘I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.’ – Gore Vidal

‘All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘I can’t swim and I’m terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water – just not in it.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.’ – John Muir

‘I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.’ – Tia Mowry

‘You know the trait of a crocodile, don’t you? It never hunts outside water. It always goes into the water to catch its prey. It never goes in the villages or in the bush looking for food. It strikes at the appropriate time. So a good guerrilla leader strikes at the appropriate time.’ – Emmerson Mnangagwa

‘I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.’ – Natalie Coughlin

‘I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn’t want me to drink Sprite because it’s unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it’s hard not to!’ – Maddie Ziegler

‘Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis… Don’t be afraid of putting on colour… Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.’ – Camille Pissarro

‘There’s something about the water – that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You’re on Earth but not quite.’ – John C. Reilly

‘A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘Drink a lot of water, wear big sunglasses, and don’t wear make-up on the flight.’ – Doutzen Kroes

‘Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.’ – Mike May

‘We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, ‘Ooh, we’re having a water crisis.’ This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.’ – Mae Jemison

‘With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.’ – Joe Baca

‘Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.’ – Nicholas Negroponte

‘Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.’ – Norbert Leo Butz

‘I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, ‘Why don’t we do that?’ Then I realised, ‘Because it doesn’t make any sense.’ It doesn’t save any time, and you can’t really get into a steak and baked potato when there’s water pouring on you.’ – Brie Larson

‘I think that water is immediately interesting. It’s just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright – it reflects you.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘I know now that I began writing in a country where the word ‘woman’ and the word ‘poet’ were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other to sketch out self-reflective individualism. Both states were necessary – that much the culture conceded – but they were oil and water and could not be mixed.’ – Eavan Boland

‘In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.’ – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

‘Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.’ – David Suzuki

‘Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There’s a beauty to it; it’s an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It’s technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements – the wind, the water, the weather.’ – Pier Luigi Loro Piana

‘With respect to the environment in our state and our state’s future – in addition to water which is very important here – I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.’ – Jennifer Granholm

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

‘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.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches – all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.’ – Brian Skerry

‘Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.’ – Nastassja Kinski

‘We didn’t have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.’ – Johnny Weissmuller

‘I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.’ – Evonne Goolagong Cawley

‘I have a glass of alkaline water first thing. I don’t have the biggest appetite in the morning, which is kind of tough for me, but I always start with a green drink called Tonic Alchemy. It’s a really amazing combination drink that has a lot of different superfoods and algae and Chinese herbs.’ – Jamie Anderson

‘One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.’ – Larry Ellison

‘My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.’ – Udo Kier

‘Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community’s coast guard.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.’ – Ken Wilber

‘Iranian parents can’t stop their children. They’re just wild – they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That’s why Iran has to open up: it’s like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.’ – Golshifteh Farahani

‘She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.’ – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

‘I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.’ – Kanye West

‘With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘I’ll take a shot of vodka if I want it to be raspy… I tell whoever’s in the studio to get boiling hot water, like super boiling, that they’re afraid to give it to me. I put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body. That cleans it up.’ – PartyNextDoor

‘When I go on trips, I like to have everything in one place. Someone to be in charge of the food, someone to keep things organized, and someone to attend to us. I need the house to be awesome, by the water, with all the amenities I need.’ – Karol G

‘When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.’ – Gwendolyn Brooks

‘We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘Pate a choux is a mixture of simple ingredients – flour, water, milk, eggs – but the proper technique is essential. Unlike other doughs, the pastry is pre-cooked on the stovetop before being enriched with eggs, piped, and baked.’ – Claire Saffitz

‘Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn’t sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay.’ – Ryan North

‘I worked with Jack Nitzsche for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ and we’d booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that – with some Indian flutes and some drums.’ – Milos Forman

‘As a mom, spending quality time on the water with my family is a simple and relaxing way to unplug.’ – Jessica Mendoza

‘The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.’ – Hernan Cortes

‘Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life… The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.’ – Mark Udall

‘No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.’ – Hanya Yanagihara

‘The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.’ – Steven Wright

‘I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I’m a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.’ – Engelbert Humperdinck

‘Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.’ – Kate Brown

‘I operate from a place of like water on a duck’s back. When things are thrown at me or said to me that aren’t worth my time, they don’t register with me. Like it just rolls off my back.’ – P.K. Subban

‘If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you’ll get back cash. If you don’t have faith, you’ll get soggy bread.’ – Don King

‘I love open water diving and first tried it in Vanuatu.’ – Monica Galetti

‘It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man’s mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.’ – Ivan Pavlov

‘For myself, losing is not coming second. It’s getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I’ve been in.’ – Ian Thorpe

‘Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.’ – Brian Clough

‘I love parasailing, taking strolls, indulging in water sports, hanging out in touristy places – especially night markets.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘It’s great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.’ – Hugo Weaving

‘Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It’s a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.’ – Jonathan Brandis

‘My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.’ – Du Fu

‘Everyone deserves to have confidence in their drinking water.’ – Roy Cooper

‘I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘You look at the large problems that we face – that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose – all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.’ – Molly Ivins

‘The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.’ – Dave Barry

‘In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social order that emerges out of the rubble.’ – Nish Kumar

‘Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.’ – Mark Twain

‘In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small – the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects – must inevitably find their analogues in music.’ – George Crumb

‘I always have water, tons of water. It’s even in my bathroom because I used to be so bad at drinking water, and I want to stay hydrated.’ – Selena Gomez

‘I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me – the hyena in Africa, the great white shark – leopard seals are near the top of the list. They’re killers. If my team spots one, they’ll pull me out of the water.’ – Lewis Gordon Pugh

‘When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko’s ‘Spider-Man’ fights used to happen in and around.’ – Dave Gibbons

‘Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘I once saw a TikTok beauty hack about taking a hot bowl of water and using it to steam your face. I tried it, and it feels so good.’ – Charli D’Amelio

‘Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.’ – Anatole France

‘After I shower and put in all my products, I hang out with the diffuser with my head flipped over for five to seven minutes. But before I use a hair dryer, I’ll towel-dry my hair. Actually, drying your hair with an old T-shirt is a great trick. It helps to get all the extra water out, without bringing on frizz.’ – Tori Kelly

‘The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.’ – John Constable

‘I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that’s consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.’ – Dan Buettner

‘Cold water is merciless, but righteous.’ – Wim Hof

‘I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too.’ – John McEnroe

‘Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it’s changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water’s edge.’ – Jo Nesbo

‘I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales – when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there’s something different about it. And I miss the simple life.’ – Ellie Goulding

‘Faithfully obeying God’s commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.’ – David A. Bednar

‘The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn’t hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.’ – Stewart Butterfield

‘In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘Height and water are things that mostly everyone is scared of and especially when you are standing on the top of a 50-storey building. Also, I am still scared of water because I don’t swim, I have learnt a little here and there but I am not a trained swimmer.’ – Rahul Vaidya

‘I didn’t want to be told what to do. I don’t want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything’s turning into one big commercial.’ – Chris Robinson

‘It doesn’t bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn’t bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.’ – Shakira

‘I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don’t need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.’ – Stephen Curry

‘If there’s a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.’ – Muhtar Kent

‘Bathtubs, pools, water – to me, it’s a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.’ – Andre Balazs

‘My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water.’ – Kelly Clarkson

‘I’m working with UNESCO on a project called ‘Thirst,’ which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.’ – Joyce Giraud

‘More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.’ – David Suzuki

‘Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.’ – Iggy Pop

‘It’s a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.’ – Dawn Fraser

‘There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That’s something I’d like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle.’ – Michael Phelps

‘You should cut down on your plastic consumption. Go get a reusable water bottle.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.’ – Jim Costa

‘I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘When was ‘again?’ Was it back when I was drinking from a separate water fountain? Was it when I couldn’t eat in that restaurant over there?… ‘Make America Great Again’ – before I had equality?’ – Daryl Davis

‘Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.’ – Larry Wilcox

‘Where there’s water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it’s bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water… To look at the health-food aisles, you’d think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.’ – Bee Wilson

‘When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he’d hung on a water pipe behind his desk.’ – Marc Randolph

‘If it’s a beautiful day we love to go to the Museum of Natural History. They have sprinklers. It’s what passes for a water park on the Upper West Side.’ – Alisyn Camerota

‘A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what’s a bubble? It’s basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.’ – Alton Brown

‘For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau’s ‘Nosferatu’ was his greatest film, I have news for you: his ‘Faust’ blows it out of the water.’ – Kage Baker

‘I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there’s that nice reverb, and the water’s drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.’ – Meryl Streep

‘My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there’s air, water in there. I was freaking out.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.’ – W. C. Fields

‘When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘Saying drinking water is ‘safe’ without any supporting documentation is wrong. Resting on the comfort that the DHEC and the USEPA are there to give you cover is the same mistake the City of Flint made.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘I was really surprised to learn that there is no food date label standardization, which contributes significantly to why we waste so much food, which generates methane emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas, in landfill, and means that we are using lots of land, water, fertilizer and energy to produce food that no one eats.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Hydration is everything. Think of this: your muscles are 70-plus percent water – how are you not drinking water during a workout? I get the whole, ‘Let’s challenge ourselves; let’s do that prison, tough guy thing,’ but at the end of the day, you’re underperforming.’ – Gunnar Peterson

‘Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!’ – Unknown

‘Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki.’ – Duke Kahanamoku

‘They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother’s milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘We can create new ways to create clean water.’ – Craig Venter

‘We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.’ – Norman Ralph Augustine

‘I’m big about washing my face before I go to bed, washing it when I wake up in the morning, getting good sleep and drinking a lot of water. Those are just easy things that you can do for your skin.’ – Kendall Jenner

‘I didn’t learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.’ – Matthew Fox

‘The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.’ – Bradley Chicho

‘Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.’ – Ma Jun

‘Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Acting was always the first love, but a lot of people want to be actors, and my goal was, ‘Come hell or high water, I will be a part of this world, however I can.’ So that just led me to throwing myself into every aspect of narrative storytelling I could.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.’ – Peter Higgs

‘You can’t vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.’ – Russel Honore

‘I’ve jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I’ve dove 212 feet under water. I’ve done a lot of things that defied death.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘We don’t want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.’ – Arvind Gupta

‘When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan’s heritage and its economy.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.’ – Richard Lamm

‘Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.’ – Julie Andrews

‘To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.’ – Gore Vidal

‘For ‘The Rise of Cobra,’ I was dieting more and using protein powder to help supplement my meals. For ‘Retaliation,’ however, I opted for more natural protein. I had a chicken breast and broccoli meal about five times every day. I also drank plenty of water and made sure I got enough rest.’ – Lee Byung-hun

‘If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.’ – Kenny Smith

‘My pantry pastas fall somewhere in the middle of the time spectrum. They’re simple, streamlined, and flexible, with unfussy yet massively flavorful sauces that come together in the time it takes to boil water and cook pasta.’ – Chris Morocco

‘My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.’ – Hong Chau

‘The beauty of Maine is such that you can’t really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I’ve moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.’ – Alexander Chee

‘The pathway to a more sustainable future for all children must include access to the basic building blocks of good health, including nutrition, water, and immunizations.’ – Seth Berkley

‘My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.’ – Siouxsie Sioux

‘I don’t go to the doctor except when I’m very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.’ – Park Won-soon

‘There’s managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven’t. So I’m quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that’s all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn’t cause me any sleepless nights.’ – Graeme Souness

‘I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘I think water seeks its own level, that we go through challenges to become better. And now more than ever, it’s good to look at who you’re following in any type of hierarchy or institution – be it a church or the government. We can see how easy it is for people to lose their footing when they have great power.’ – Lynn Whitfield

‘Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.’ – David Bowie

‘People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.’ – Clarence Thomas

‘It’s Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we’re witnessing now more and more is a certain number of mega-trends interacting with one another: population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change, and conflict.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘I can’t remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn’t real smart, but I said, ‘I don’t like the sound of that.” – Joe Gibbs

‘Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.’ – Edith Sitwell

‘The color of the mountains is Buddha’s body; the sound of running water is his great speech.’ – Dogen

‘My father gave me this poster from National Geographic back in the very early 70s, so I was a young teenager. It showed how man polluted his world. And the issues that they talked about, whether it was water pollution, air, or terrestrial… The issues that they talk about on this poster are still very much present today.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘On a large scale, people aren’t going to cut back how much they use. That’s a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world’s going to consume more – more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.’ – Ramez Naam

‘Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘We’re talking about a chemical that’s out there. Not just on one farm in West Virginia, not even just in the public water of an entire community there, but it’s now in water all over the country, all over the planet, in the blood of virtually every living thing.’ – Robert Bilott

‘I can be proud of every swim, every effort I put in the water, every mental approach to every single race.’ – Caeleb Dressel

‘The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound – letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.’ – Lyall Watson

‘I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.’ – Rosanna Arquette

‘My skincare routine is pretty minimal. My must-have products are rose water, witch hazel, Embryolisse Creme, and Dr. Colbert’s Eye Cream.’ – Kenza Fourati

‘There’s nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry – living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘The dish that changed my life was tom yum kum. You start with a pot of water, add lemongrass, lime leaves, lime juice, coriander, mushrooms, and shrimp; ten minutes later, you have the most incredible, intense soup.’ – Jean-Georges Vongerichten

‘I’m partial to the Cornish coast, as it’s near where I grew up in Plymouth. The views across the water are stunning. I love walking along the sandy beaches and the seafront paths.’ – Tom Daley

‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water.’ – John Keats

‘We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.’ – Martin Rees

‘It’s scary when one day the city is there and the next day it’s gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn’t believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.’ – Kevin Garnett

‘Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘We are over 60 percent water by weight. We’re just a big ball of… blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don’t dribble away on the floor.’ – David Suzuki

‘Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘My mom is big on moisturizer and water. She always reminds me to drink a lot of water and wear sunglasses because I always forget them when I go out, even though they are one of my favorite accessories. She always reminds me about wrinkles, and always did, so it’s kind of been ingrained into me.’ – Brittany Snow

‘When the soul, through its own fault… becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It’s like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.’ – Brian Chesky

‘One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.’ – Lao Tzu

‘I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley’s drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘One may as well dam for water tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.’ – John Muir

‘You work on it. You talk about it. You don’t go out looking for greener grass; sometimes you have to water the grass that you have. And that’s what marriage is. Sometimes it can be hard.’ – Chrishell Stause

‘When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.’ – Ronnie Dunn

‘I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I’m trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.’ – William Kamkwamba

‘Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.’ – Steven Pinker

‘I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish – they speak to me – and the shells – they ring out to me.’ – Ella Henderson

‘The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.’ – Klaus Kinski

‘One glass of water doesn’t equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.’ – Jil Sander

‘It’s good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of ‘What would we want to see?” – Will Forte

‘I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.’ – Johnny Weissmuller

‘The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.’ – Wilson Mizner

‘Breakfast is the most important meal for me. I love porridge, which I have with water, and some fruit, usually raspberries or melon. And I drink hot water with lemon and green tea.’ – Jo Frost

‘In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it’s crummy water. It’s real salty. It’s got heavy metals in it. It’s got bad stuff in it.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.’ – Ace Frehley

‘If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.’ – Doris Lessing

‘No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.’ – DJ Khaled

‘It’s a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody’s arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.’ – Quentin Tarantino

‘It’s like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you’ll water your career or your relationship more.’ – Jewel

‘Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse – no water, food, medical care, the government imploding – while letting us sleep at night.’ – Max Brooks

‘In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless – the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.’ – Mario J. Molina

‘I remember when I was a kid I thought I could either be an athletic water drinker, like an Olympic-level water drinker, or I could invent Windex. Which I thought was really smart, because it already existed.’ – Devendra Banhart

‘I do lead a careful diet, I don’t overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.’ – Bruce Forsyth

‘In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘To visit the West Coast, now and always, is to be overwhelmed by its beauty – the blue water and blue skies, the temperate air and the beaches and the looming mountains not so far away.’ – Ross Douthat

‘I believe that agriculture land – productive agricultural land with water on site – will be valuable in the future.’ – Michael Burry

‘Walking by water frees your creativity. I don’t know how it works – there’s something about it that’s liberating.’ – Val McDermid

‘We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.’ – Gilbert Newton Lewis

‘When I’m writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.’ – Donna Tartt

‘When we speak of maintaining clean water supplies and a sustainable use of the environment, we should also stress the elimination of harmful chemicals in consumer products.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.’ – Jorge Masvidal

‘There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.’ – James Stockdale

‘Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.’ – William H. O’Connell

‘Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I’m thirsty, not dirty.’ – Joe E. Lewis

‘Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.’ – Peter O’Toole

‘For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.’ – Wilhelm Ostwald

‘Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.’ – Esther Williams

‘In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.’ – Eden Robinson

‘Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet of bread sauce that you make with water. We used to dream of a can of beans.’ – Roger Taylor

‘Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can’t get better without drinking lots of water, and you can’t drink water unless it’s clean.’ – Josh Fox

‘I eat a salad every single day. I also have been doing the juice ‘thing’ after every workout, and I try to drink a half-gallon of water a day.’ – Jill Wagner

‘I’m fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water – my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘If you can’t afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it’s crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history.’ – Guy Standing

‘I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.’ – Maya Angelou

‘When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep – much deeper than I thought.’ – Jack Ma

‘You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can’t just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.’ – Bootsy Collins

‘Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.’ – Frans Lanting

‘There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn’t stick out my hand to pull him up. So I’m probably not the best person to take on a camping trip.’ – Norman Reedus

‘The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You’re sleepless, you’re anxious, you’re fat, you’re depressed – and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn’t help.’ – Sandra Tsing Loh

‘Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.’ – Stendhal

‘In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus’ body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.’ – Max Heindel

‘Diet-wise, I practice intermittent fasting, keeping me alert, as the body is using up its energy stores. It keeps my diet in check, so I’m just on black coffee and water, maybe a fruit round 1 P. M.’ – Jax Jones

‘You should always read the ingredients in coconut water. It should say 100% coconut water.’ – Borns

‘My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That’s the kind of place we lived in.’ – Takashi Murakami

‘If we think of what’s up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it’s very frightening.’ – Carol Ann Duffy

‘I’m not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there’s no harm in hot water when it’s warmed by the sun.’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘My favorite drink is water – the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That’s why I love coming to California. They’re always talking to you about bottled water.’ – George Foreman

‘I saw from a very young age the value of clean water in communities in Africa. I made a promise to myself that once I reached a time and place in my career where I could do more, I would.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of ‘Black Water,’ so this is a full circle moment. To collaborate and recreate this iconic song is just an amazing moment as an artist.’ – Zac Brown

‘The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I’m in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.’ – Texas Battle

‘According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem – because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.’ – Rashid Johnson

‘I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with.’ – Johnny Van Zant

‘Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.’ – Tom Robbins

‘I never drink water. I’m afraid it will become habit-forming.’ – W. C. Fields

‘Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.’ – Angela Bassett

‘Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.’ – Bunker Roy

‘Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.’ – Tove Jansson

‘I’m a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?’ – MJ Hegar

‘Titan has no liquid water on its surface, and any liquid water beneath its surface is inaccessible to us, as far as we know. It has hydrocarbon lakes, but we don’t know of any organisms that could live in those, not at the temperatures that we find on Titan. Any reference to possible life in lakes on the surface of Titan is pure speculation.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘Think about a seed. Once it lands, it’s stuck. It can’t move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It’s able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.’ – David Suzuki

‘I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.’ – Sulli

‘There’s a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that’s mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘I’ve been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.’ – Richard Dean Anderson

‘I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!’ – Tori Amos

‘Havin’ fun while freedom fightin’ must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.’ – Molly Ivins

‘Coconut water is just the best for you; it’s always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I’ve been drinking it.’ – Adriana Lima

‘It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.’ – Sonny Rollins

‘I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.’ – Tallulah Bankhead

‘You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.’ – John Dryden

‘This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.’ – George Ripley

‘I’m petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass.’ – Kyle Schmid

‘I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I’d jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.’ – Kate Mara

‘I didn’t go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don’t need no more schoolin’. You need to get out in the water and swim.’ – Wilford Brimley

‘For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.’ – Xenophon

‘Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer.’ – Rita Marley

‘Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.’ – Vitruvius

‘Do you understand about water in the West? Whiskey’s for drinking; water’s for fightin’ over.’ – Paul Gosar

‘People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‘UNICEF.” – Audrey Hepburn

‘We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that’s not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems – clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates – are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship.’ – Paul Hawken

‘I’ve been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it’s not a comfortable feeling.’ – Richard Hammond

‘Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.’ – George Matthew Adams

‘Dehydration is a serious problem, particularly for young hedgehogs in the summer, so having some water out that they can drink is important.’ – Steve Backshall

‘Time is water, and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.’ – Joseph Brodsky

‘During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.’ – Marjory Stoneman Douglas

‘People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.’ – Mike Farrell

‘When you drink fluoridated water, you’re drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it’s a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘I don’t use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn’t have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.’ – Simon Baker

‘I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.’ – Jeremy Clarkson

‘For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us – the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small – to flourish.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water – and sunsets from the terrace.’ – Edgardo Osorio

‘The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.’ – James Heckman

‘The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress’ negotiations often come slow or not at all.’ – Cedric Richmond

‘Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘A ship’s engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew’s magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.’ – Tomas Transtromer

‘Sleep and hydration are the very best things you can do for your skin. You want to drink water and green tea throughout the day and get as much sleep as you possible can.’ – Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

‘I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.’ – Charlie Pierce

‘We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.’ – Sue Kelly

‘Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day.’ – Cheech Marin

‘Nothing is worse than washing a head of lettuce or greens, then trying to blot the water with paper towels. A salad spinner lets you rinse, then spin all the water off completely. Plus, it’s fun to use.’ – Steven Gundry

‘Yeah, I mean I’m a water sign. I’m a Pisces.’ – Jhene Aiko

‘Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.’ – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

‘Water is my drink.’ – Stephen Curry

‘People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn’t break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?’ – Marion Barry

‘If you can drink water when you want, you are lucky, if you can sit up on your bed by yourself, you are lucky, if you can walk to the bathroom without anyone’s help, you are lucky.’ – Sunil Grover

‘Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘When you’re in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you’re not throwing the baby out with the bath water.’ – Ridley Scott

‘In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It’s almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It’s perfect.’ – Ethan Canin

‘I really wanted to address different issues of protection of biodiversity, water management issues that I knew were pretty severe in most countries, and then of course climate change.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘The weather here is gorgeous. It’s mild and feels like it’s in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.’ – David Letterman

‘Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.’ – William Kamkwamba

‘Ultimately, mayonnaise and aioli are brothers from the same mother. Both are emulsions of oil and water, which just means that the two incompatible liquids are brought together with the help of a third party stabilizer to create something thicker, creamier, and richer than before.’ – Sohla El-Waylly

‘Water is my main state. If I time before I run – like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I’ll eat oatmeal. but I’m a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.’ – Flea

‘One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.’ – Mahavira

‘I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.’ – James E. Faust

‘Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work – ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds – things like that.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘I wear high water pants, always, so you can see my socks – I always wear white socks.’ – Gus Dapperton

‘We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we’re going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.’ – Larry Ellison

‘I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life – on human life.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.’ – Nellie Bly

‘I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We’re supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we’ll truly need it and we won’t spill a drop. It’s about being present.’ – Walton Goggins

‘I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, ‘colored’ and ‘white’ water fountains, and my mother’s inability to try on a dress in a store because no white woman would buy it if she put it back.’ – Mike Espy

‘In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you’re stuck with your own thoughts – there’s great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there’s also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.’ – Diana Nyad

‘When someone tells me they want to start a diet, I’ll suggest they start by aiming to drink half their body weight in ounces of water every day. It’s much easier to add a habit than to take one away, but the water goal is a challenge. When they conquer that for the month, they’ve set a new standard for achievement and can add on something tougher.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.’ – Hernan Cortes

‘When it comes to drinking water, there is no room for political posturing or hollow solutions.’ – Roy Cooper

‘Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay

‘When I discovered that hexavalent chromium was causing cancer in the town of Hinkley, California, it led to residents being paid $333m in compensation. But, unbelievably, that chemical remains in our drinking water.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘The water in ‘Life of Pi’ is very realistic.’ – Travis Knight

‘Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.’ – Sukarno

‘To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it’s just euphoric.’ – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

‘I ran on fixing the roads… I ran on cleaning up drinking water.’ – Gretchen Whitmer

‘We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty – and instead acknowledge that there’s not quite enough water to go around.’ – Kate Brown

‘I definitely don’t generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.’ – Cole Hauser

‘Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they’ve lost their grip.’ – Lewis Black

‘I left ‘Saturday Night Live’ without a film to go to, and I’d filmed ‘Old School’ while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn’t come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.’ – Will Ferrell

‘We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.’ – Fred Thompson

‘It’s not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren’t the worst problem with fracking.’ – David Suzuki

‘I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I’m not thinking about golf. I’m just wondering if my cooler’s got enough ice to make it through the day.’ – Dustin Johnson

‘Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it’s very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.’ – Valentina Zelyaeva

‘We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked – and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room – my daughter! O my daughter!’ – George Washington Cable

‘At the Olympics in China, every color was represented… and that was just the drinking water.’ – Evan Sayet

‘At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.’ – Egon Schiele

‘Man needs colour to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water.’ – Fernand Leger

‘A drop of water can’t stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.’ – Sloane Stephens

‘Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.’ – John Stuart Blackie

‘St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it’s like this little paradise on Earth.’ – Bjarke Ingels

‘In Singapore, I want to go to the water park on Sentosa Island.’ – Peyton List

‘I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.’ – Gore Vidal

‘I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don’t think I’ve written any great songs.’ – Paul Simon

‘The water cooler conversation in every job I’ve had is sports, it’s what did you do this weekend, it’s ‘How are your parents doing?” – Kal Penn

‘To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘Why is it that we ask the question about whether or not Indigenous people should have clean drinking water? We’ve got to take a minute and think why is that even a question. Yes, they deserve clean drinking water.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.’ – Jim Himes

‘Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘Gluten – the elastic strands that give bread its chewy texture – forms when certain proteins in flour interact with water, which is desirable in bread, but not tender cake.’ – Claire Saffitz

‘The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.’ – Art Buchwald

‘A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I’m somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.’ – Theodore White

‘Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.’ – Wallace Stevens

‘It’s not color, it’s like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.’ – John Huston

‘Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City’s got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!’ – Ed Koch

‘Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert – and then make it brief.’ – Gene Fowler

‘The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women’s rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.’ – Shana Alexander

‘The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.’ – Horace

‘My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine – everybody drinks water.’ – Marilyn French

‘The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘I came like Water, and like Wind I go.’ – Edward Fitzgerald

‘There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.’ – Coleman Young

‘Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.’ – Roger Maris

‘About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.’ – Frank Yerby

‘Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.’ – Samuel Butler

‘Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.’ – Ross Perot

‘Wherever we’ve travelled in this great land of ours, we’ve found that people everywhere are about 90% water.’ – David Letterman

‘No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.’ – Horace

‘Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.’ – Dave Freudenthal

‘Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.’ – Bill Frist

‘The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I’d like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.’ – Dave Freudenthal

‘I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.’ – Ken Salazar

‘It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.’ – Corey Feldman

‘Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.’ – Olive Schreiner

‘You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.’ – Amy Irving

‘Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.’ – Ludovico Ariosto

‘Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?’ – Richard Levin

‘You don’t really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I’ve been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.’ – Bill Paxton

‘Call things by their right names – Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.’ – Robert Hall

‘I am no Poet here; my pen’s the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.’ – John Cleveland

‘It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.’ – Lee R. Raymond

‘Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water? – Francis Bond Head’ – Francis Bond Head

‘Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it’s because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.’ – Isaac Hayes

‘It’s the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.’ – Michelle Rodriguez

‘My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.’ – Bill Rodgers

‘This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.’ – Charles Olson

‘The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?’ – Jules Verne

‘True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.’ – George Aiken

‘No publication is a staple of life. It’s not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people’s minds and even in their hands as they’re holding it.’ – Timothy White

‘The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we’re coming to the end of world resources.’ – Jared Diamond

‘The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.’ – Leonard Orr

‘They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can’t even get my head above water!’ – Bud Abbott

‘Water for me is so essential, like swimming.’ – Nastassja Kinski

‘Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.’ – Walter Lang

‘When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.’ – Clive Cussler

‘The president’s budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure.’ – Sue Kelly

‘All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.’ – John Salazar

‘The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.’ – Diego Maradona

‘Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people… No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.’ – Thomas Becket

‘But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.’ – Frank Langella

‘Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.’ – James Wolfensohn

‘Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.’ – Karen Duffy

‘When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.’ – Lizzie Andrew Borden

‘If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.’ – Michael D. Barnes

‘When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.’ – Michael Moriarty

‘Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.’ – John Blair

‘The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.’ – William Whipple

‘There’s a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.’ – Roland Emmerich

‘One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn’t leave. Especially when we were out at sea.’ – John C. Reilly

‘After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.’ – Ellsworth Huntington

‘You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you’re trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.’ – Dennis Brown

‘I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.’ – Eliot Engel

‘I need to think about ‘Make sure you drink your water.’ That’s the kind of person I am.’ – Jon Crosby

‘Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it’s good or bad. There’s a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don’t belong on the planet sometimes.’ – Jon Crosby

‘I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.’ – Dean Koontz

‘It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.’ – Esther Williams

‘Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.’ – William Falconer

‘Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation’s water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.’ – Jerry Costello

‘Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.’ – Jerry Costello

‘In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation’s lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.’ – Jerry Costello

‘This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.’ – Robert Fortune

‘In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, ‘it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.” – Thomas J. Sargent

‘To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.’ – John C. Hawkes

‘I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let’s get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don’t want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.’ – Susan George

‘By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.’ – Roy Barnes

‘The summer of 1830 I… blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill… In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.’ – Ezra Cornell

‘Brooke might tell a different story, but I’ve always loved the water.’ – Christopher Atkins

‘There’s loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I’ve done it a couple of times myself – but don’t swallow it!’ – Cliff Richard

‘The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.’ – Black Elk

‘The sea has now changed from it’s natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.’ – George Vancouver

‘I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.’ – Robert Mondavi

‘My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.’ – Robert Mondavi

‘My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.’ – Shawn Ashmore

‘Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible – a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory – in fact I didn’t teach Bank, I’ve used parts of Oil and Water.’ – Siobhan Davies

‘Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.’ – Jo Bonner

‘In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.’ – Ron Kind

‘The minute you start feeling like you’ve got it down, you know what you’re doing, you’re dead in the water.’ – Vincent D’Onofrio

‘Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.’ – Bashar al-Assad

‘Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.’ – Henry Williamson

‘Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.’ – Marjory Stoneman Douglas

‘Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.’ – Willy Ley

‘I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I’ll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.’ – Paul Lynde

‘Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.’ – Jennifer Connelly

‘I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.’ – Jay Inslee

‘The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.’ – Ruben Hinojosa

‘Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.’ – James Lind

‘I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it’s true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.’ – John Sayles

‘Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn’t stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass.’ – Laurel Clark

‘Once I showed up at my sister’s with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.’ – Juliette Gordon Low

‘I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.’ – Kelly Preston

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

‘For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.’ – Chief Joseph

‘Now I understand what was happening. I don’t particularly gain water; I don’t have water retention.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.’ – C. S. Forester

‘Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.’ – Satish Kumar

‘And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.’ – William Scranton

‘Obviously, I’m not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.’ – William Scranton

‘When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.’ – William Scranton

‘In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.’ – Charles Lyell

‘We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.’ – Les Aspin

‘The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you’re going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.’ – Danny Elfman

‘I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.’ – David Knopfler

‘By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher.’ – David F. Houston

‘Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.’ – Gordon Sinclair

‘We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.’ – Kevin Richardson

‘Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can’t get medical care or clean water.’ – Paul Farmer

‘If I’ve got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I’ll be okay.’ – Rob Walton

‘I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It’s hot.’ – Macy Gray

‘We had two rules growing up in my house: If you’re going to take a shower, do it with whomever you’re dating so you don’t waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody’s going to want one.’ – Moon Unit Zappa

‘I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.’ – Rider Strong

‘To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.’ – Rider Strong

‘I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.’ – Joe Baca

‘Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.’ – Lee Haney

‘On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.’ – Lisa Snowdon

‘I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.’ – Parker Stevenson

‘If I have a Sunday free, I’ll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.’ – Parker Stevenson

‘Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you’re in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.’ – David R. Ellis

‘But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.’ – George Ripley

‘I’ve figured out what to do so far, but it’s always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting – whoosh! in your face. That’s why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.’ – Judi Dench

‘In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.’ – Stephen Collins

‘It was a rich and gorgeous sunset – an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.’ – Francis Parkman

‘As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.’ – Lawrence Hargrave

‘The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.’ – Lawrence Hargrave

‘One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.’ – Oksana Baiul

‘It’s a piece of property that, if you’re going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.’ – Tom Kite

‘A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.’ – Itzhak Perlman

‘I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile’s neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.’ – Louis Leakey

‘Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion – by wind.’ – Hermann von Helmholtz

‘The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.’ – Wilhelm Ostwald

‘Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.’ – William Bligh

‘We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.’ – David Ricardo

‘One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?’ – Geraldo Rivera

‘I love the sea’s sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.’ – John Dyer

‘St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.’ – John Dyer

‘I couldn’t get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn’t last.’ – Frances Farmer

‘Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.’ – Kenneth Grahame

‘I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.’ – Susan Smith

‘I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.’ – Susan Smith

‘I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That’s the key.’ – Warren Cuccurullo

‘The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.’ – Junipero Serra

‘The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.’ – Junipero Serra

‘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 another.’ – William Dampier

‘The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.’ – William Dampier

‘Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.’ – Evel Knievel

‘It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.’ – Robert Barany

‘I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.’ – Neil Young

‘In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It’s just smooth, really beautiful.’ – Steve Guttenberg

‘And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.’ – Kim Dae Jung

‘Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.’ – Kenelm Digby

‘The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.’ – Bjorn Lomborg

‘My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.’ – Bjorn Lomborg

‘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.’ – Brad Paisley

‘We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.’ – Michael Stipe

‘Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.’ – Polly Toynbee

‘To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water – there is no help for any of these things.’ – Mary Hunter Austin

‘Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.’ – Maria Monk

‘What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I’ve done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.’ – Leslie Fiedler

‘The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.’ – Charles Eastman

‘Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.’ – Jim Costa

‘We’ve got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.’ – Bobby Jindal

‘You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.’ – Sam Donaldson

‘Oh yeah – I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn’t seen that film, inevitably the camera would’ve ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.’ – Phillip Noyce

‘You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.’ – Billy Tauzin

‘Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.’ – Billy Tauzin

‘The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.’ – Billy Tauzin

‘New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It’s so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we’re serious about rebuilding New Orleans.’ – Billy Tauzin

‘Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.’ – Billy Tauzin

‘On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.’ – George Grey

‘I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.’ – Lynn Johnston

‘I’ve been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I’m forced to go into in on every movie that I make.’ – Natalie Wood

‘I am, out of the ladies’ company, like a fish out of the water.’ – Thomas Shadwell

‘It’s a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.’ – Stone Gossard

‘For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.’ – Richard Leakey

‘We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we’re living in. You know this – the movie lives in this – it’s centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.’ – Nick Cassavetes

‘Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It’s great. The problem is there’s a million dots at the time.’ – Louis Freeh

‘Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.’ – Diane von Furstenberg

‘When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.’ – Connie Sellecca

‘The pictures we saw before we got down here didn’t even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.’ – Connie Sellecca

‘How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.’ – Anna Held

‘You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can’t make him think.’ – Ric Keller

‘No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.’ – Anna Neagle

‘When you look at what I’ve done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland’s people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.’ – Peter Hain

‘A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.’ – Sally Schneider

‘The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water’s edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.’ – Ernest Thompson Seton

‘There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot write of ducks without mentioning water.’ – Ernest Thompson Seton

‘I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the – you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.’ – James Cameron

‘That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don’t go easy on her. So it was scary.’ – Rachel Weisz

‘Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn’t, and that breeds resentment.’ – Dionne Warwick

‘How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.’ – Lynette Fromme

‘Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.’ – Sarah McLachlan

‘When you’re on top and you lead the parade, everyone’s there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there’s a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that’s all you’ve got, you’re dead in the water. It’s not good.’ – Howard Stern

‘This land, this water, this air, this planet – this is our legacy to our young.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.’ – Harri Holkeri

‘I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona’s citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city’s efforts.’ – J. D. Hayworth

‘As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.’ – Moshe Sharett

‘Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.’ – Don Rose

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

‘Me, I’m spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that’s about as close to God as I get.’ – Steve Earle

‘There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.’ – Kirk Gibson

‘Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won’t be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.’ – Alexandra Paul

‘A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!’ – Pauline Phillips

‘I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.’ – Stirling Moss

‘I’ve yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.’ – Michael Tolkin

‘I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.’ – Fred Savage

‘Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.’ – James Wilson

‘When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.’ – Kathleen Blanco

‘It’s the water. Everything is driven by the water.’ – Mike Thompson

‘Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.’ – Alvar N. C. de Vaca

‘If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, ‘Your son was vaporized because we didn’t want to dump some guy’s head under water for 30 seconds.” – Peter T. King

‘I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn’t gone that well with the crew… so I replaced it with tequila.’ – Hugh Laurie

‘My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I’m obsessed.’ – John Krasinski

‘I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘cooking’ but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it’s done.’ – Devon Werkheiser

‘Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.’ – Nicholas Stern

‘It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.’ – John Doerr

‘My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she’s hot, that’s a very human reaction, but you don’t go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it’s how you behave.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘I don’t think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.’ – Joel McHale

‘I’ve just grown a little disappointed with ‘Muppets in the Old West’, ‘Muppets Under Water’ and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80’s, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That’s what I’m trying to bring back.’ – Jason Segel

‘I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.’ – Rick Perry

‘I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.’ – Wangari Maathai

‘Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they’re always trying to get me in the water in movies! I’ve drawn the line now with this film. No more water!’ – Estella Warren

‘The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘Every time I get on an airplane I have a routine. I cover the inside of my nostrils with anti-bacterial ointment. I’m popping Zicam like it’s candy. And I drink, literally, from L.A. to New York, six bottles of water.’ – Zachary Quinto

‘Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.’ – Amanda Beard

‘To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.’ – Amanda Beard

‘I’d go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn’t have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people’s standards.’ – Amanda Beard

‘I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It’s more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it’s helped me adjust to life in America – getting into the water as much as I can.’ – Liam Hemsworth

‘I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I’m pounding spring water.’ – Brad Delson

‘I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, ‘Oh, this can’t be happening.’ It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.’ – Breckin Meyer

‘I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.’ – Elizabeth Berkley

‘I swim all the time at night – I’ve always been a water girl. It’s a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I’ve done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, ‘That’s it.” – Brooke Burns

‘I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I’d sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve – when you’re in the water having a great time, you’re not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘The best anti-aging advice I’ve ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing – I love sailing – and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.’ – Connie Nielsen

‘I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.’ – Jolene Blalock

‘One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can’t do either one.’ – Jeremy Sumpter

‘You don’t extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.’ – Pope Shenouda III

‘Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol’ freakin’ leopard shark… I’m looking at him and I’m thinking, ‘OK, he won’t hurt me.” – Timothy Olyphant

‘I think the biggest things I am looking forward to is getting new faces into the sport. Getting kids who could be afraid of water to feel comfortable in the pool.’ – Michael Phelps

‘My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.’ – Michael Phelps

‘I’ve been able to get an excitement back in the water.’ – Michael Phelps

‘I think for me I’ve always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it’s not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train – I train to race.’ – Stephanie Rice

‘I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I honestly think if I would’ve tied my suit and there wouldn’t have been any water rushing through it, I think I could’ve gone at least a second faster.’ – Ryan Lochte

‘The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I’ll drink throughout the day.’ – Ryan Hall

‘I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.’ – Petra Nemcova

‘The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That’s like the only crazy request – I don’t like any other water.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘Going out there in the water, it feels as if there’s nothing wrong with me.’ – Natalie du Toit

‘The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘I got a tattoo saying, ‘Freedom From Fear’ because of ‘Black Water Transit.” – Brittany Snow

‘The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We’ve never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘I drink red wine on ice to water it down.’ – Diane Keaton

‘I’m trying to drink more water.’ – Heather Donahue

‘I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don’t even have clean drinking water.’ – Stephanie Herseth

‘To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.’ – Hilary Swank

‘I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.’ – Audrey Tautou

‘I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I’d bury myself under water so everybody could see that you’re there.’ – David Blaine

‘I couldn’t imagine not having clean water.’ – Chris Tucker

‘I drink a gallon of water a day.’ – Gabrielle Union

‘Sometimes you meet people who can’t swim. And I always think: ‘Oh my God, that’s extraordinary.’ For me, it’s always been a treat… I just feel really happy in the water.’ – David Walliams

‘I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there’s a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.’ – Carnie Wilson

‘Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.’ – Darrell Issa

‘I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn’t realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.’ – Lorraine Bracco

‘When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there’s no pressure to come up with a hit single.’ – Scott Weiland

‘My oldest son always wants to race. He’s kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They’re all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They’re like fish in water. They go all over the place. They’re kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.’ – Steve Blake

‘I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.’ – Jason Priestley

‘Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids’ toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don’t hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it – they are all public employees.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.’ – Nik Wallenda

‘War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.’ – Alice Walker

‘We have that illusion that we are ‘deciding’ what to make a character do, in order to ‘convey our message’ or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who’s been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.’ – George Saunders

‘Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.’ – Christie Rampone

‘I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There’s no need to be drinking it if you’re living in western communities.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.’ – Ken Salazar

‘No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.’ – Kat Dennings