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“Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!”

Littles Bigs Water Steps Ocean Little Things Big Things Stairs Drop Of Water

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)

“England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.”

Wells May Water Freedom Steps Land Proud Mountain England Firm Magnificent Scotland Couches Switzerland Dams Fetters Nile

Author:Lydia M. Child

“The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.”

Humans Age Water Steps Plans Risk Car Old Age Contact Seats Panic Trash Belts Prudence Soap Paranoia Plunge Steep Seat Belts

Author:Max Lucado

“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”

Wells May Doe Lying Water Steps Logic Metaphor

Author:Isaac Watts

“People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.”

People Want President Water Leadership Steps Listening Drink Discovery Drinking Absence Genuine Desert Sand Step Up Thirsty Microphones Crawling American President Mirages Desert Sand

Author:Michael J. Fox

“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.”

Should Spirit Water Forget Steps Sea Rivers Corporate Sickness Gates Shade Factories Salt Avenues Pilgrimage

Book:How to Paint a Dead Man

Source: How to Paint a Dead Man

“Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.”

Doe Earth Lasts Death Causes Fear Water Steps Fire Air Mines Instruments Structure Fatigue Last Day

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.”

Want Enjoy Water Half Steps Minutes Drink Ten Drinking Environmental Intimate Bottles Showers Exposure Drinking Water Gallons Tap Water

Book:Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

“You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.”

Water Steps Rivers

Book:Life After Life

Source: Life After Life

“Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.”

Years Today Christ Water Can Do Walks Steps Years Ago Garbage

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections