Home / Topics / Water Quotes

Water Quotes

Browse 8254 quotes about Water.

Water Quotes

“For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.”

Water Sun Wind Quiet Shore

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.”

Ideas Water Animal Quiet Clean Shellfish

Author:Daniel Pauly

“His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.”

Pain Stars Water Quiet Rings Bells Arches Rams Dreamland No More Pain

Book:The Listeners and Other Poems

Source: The Listeners and Other Poems

“I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.”

Stills Water Tree Quiet Circles Stirring

Book:This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

“Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.”

Water Love Is Quiet Kissing Nests Trembling

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.”

“Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.”

Men Way Wells Water Sea Quiet Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Frustrating Humiliating Trout Fly Fishing Craziest

Author:John D. Voelker

“In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.”

People Thinking Knows Should Humans Kind Real Water Interesting Quiet Mouths Real Life All Kinds Minorities Why Not Closets Fart Repressed Something Interesting Parlor

Author:Mel Brooks

“So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.”

Life Mind Faces Water Quiet Flow Calm

Author:Thich Thien-An

“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”

Fall Water Dark White Behinds Fool Quiet Silent Woods Forests Leafs Lap Ants Polished Deserted Harbour

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.”

Water Grew Quiet Grew Up Serene

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.”

Ifs Matter Water Natural Nice Sky Movement Quiet Sitting Silent Edges Fishes Boat Fishing Natural Things Quiet Time

Book:Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer

Source: Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer