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.
I’m a water baby to no end.
When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn’t have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows.
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.
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.
I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That’s where I belong.
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.
There’s something about the water – that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You’re on Earth but not quite.
Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He’s a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he’s half fish.
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.
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
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.
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.
Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation’s water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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.
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
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.
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.
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
While I do think that good health, skin and hair has a lot to do with genetics, so I do have my parents to thank for it, but I do make it a point to drink lots and lots of water.
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.
Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.
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.
I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country’s population had a source of safe drinking water.
Ensuring the San Luis Valley’s Radar data is fully integrated into National Weather Service systems will improve weather forecasting and warnings across southern Colorado for the benefit of farmers, ranchers, tourists, first responders, water district managers, and the general population.
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.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
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.
Water is my drink.
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.
Growing up here in Hawaii, I loved swimming, surfing, and having fun in this paradise we are lucky to call home. But I gradually realized that I was actually happiest when I was doing things for other people, doing things to protect our water, oceans, and beaches.
Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
I am a great believer in alkaline water which lessens the acid in my system.
My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!
But I’d say recording and playing on stage are two completely different things. Being up there in front of all those people is like jumping off a cliff into icy water. The recording process is a totally different energy.
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don’t know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.
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.
I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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.
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.
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.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.
Atrazine – a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns – has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
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.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
Drink a lot of water, wear big sunglasses, and don’t wear make-up on the flight.
Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.
You can’t vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
Being in water makes me relax instantly.
My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.
I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.
One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can’t do either one.
