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He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life. — Marilynne Robinson

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side,
It's green where you water it — Justin Bieber

She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water. — Joseph Conrad

Lincoln felt like he'd dunked his head into a sink full of Pop Rocks and turned on the water. — Rainbow Rowell

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water. — Katherine Anne Porter

the mightiest and most extensive mountain range on Earth was - mostly - under water. — Bill Bryson

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

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. — Sophocles

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water. — Ray Kroc

Time is a face on the water — Stephen King

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. — Queen Victoria

The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history. — Bernard Cornwell

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth. — Linji Yixuan

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. — Marion Nestle

The sky was full of stars, and the stars reflected on the water like millions of tiny memories, distorted by the ripples and the waves. — Shawn Mihalik

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

My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk. — Fernando Pessoa

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Thighs spread out on the seat like water balloons, frying eggs, spilled syrup. — Dennis Vickers

Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand. — The Silver Elves

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water? — Michelle Moran

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face. — Alice Temperley

and he really did love cooling off in the water... — Bang On The Door

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. — Marianne Moore

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. — Anthony De Mello

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality. — Walter Munk

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. — John C. Reilly

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth. — Fiona Paul

There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul. — Virginia Alison

Because he is looking at me the way a man dying of thirst might look at a cask of water, as if his very life depends on bringing me to his lips. — Sherry D. Ficklin

If there are seeds of courage living in all of us, waiting to bloom, words are the sun and the water that cheer on those seeds to their fullness. — Annie F. Downs

Surfing is my passion because I love being active on the water. — Sarah McLachlan

Been changes) on the water-side, a little way beyond the spot at which — Henry James

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. — William Maxwell

I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water. — Morihei Ueshiba

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor. — Jesse Ball

Noah's ark is on the tombstone of drowning desire and I am walking furiously on water. — Malak El Halabi

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. — Rumi

You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water. — Jacques Anquetil

When the sun shines o'er the loch and sparkles on the water like diamond drops, ye know one thing:
somewhere there's a MacLean who is smilin'. — Karen Hawkins

For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them. — Aldous Huxley

Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd. — Jon Foreman

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

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock. — Lawrence Block

Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news and know what is going on among the peoples of the land as quick as water flows, or quicker. — J.R.R. Tolkien

That's easy. Any man who cannae keep his balls oot o' the water needs tae get laid. Come on, let's find my sister. — Steve Alten

Consider the impact of your personal care choices on our health, water supply and our wider environment. — Joanna Runciman

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips. — Paul Claudel

Now, the water is off more than it's on. — Candace George Thompson

The sun, heavy and red, was almost down on the horizon now. Its image floated like spilled fire on the water. The — Ross Macdonald

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on. — Camille Paglia

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it. — Roger Maris

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water. — Tim Winton

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching ... by and large, chores are a thing of the past. — Billy Graham

The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind. — A. G. Mohan

When doing sports ... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin. — Christie Brinkley

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

For our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water. — Soren Kierkegaard

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat. — Craig Groeschel

Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis? — John Hiatt

They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge. — Steven Wright

Down to the river itself, the water so smooth that the stars and lights blended on its dark surface like a living ribbon of eternity. The — Sarah J. Maas

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites. — Drew Carey

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis. — Liz Phair

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

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water. — Janine Benyus

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff. — Cathie Pelletier

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. — Gene Hackman

I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide
Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine — Aesop Rock

Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water. — Khaled Talib

You may have heard this, that NASA discovered water on Mars When he heard about the water on Mars, President Bush said, 'Is it regular or unleaded?' — Craig Kilborn

One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot. — Takuan Soho

Come on in. The water's fine. — Jason Medina

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince. — Duane Allman

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold. — Michael Lee West

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot. — Nicholas Sparks

Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever — Rebecca West

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real. — Shannon Hale

On the day of the funeral he had stood behind me in the rain and let the water wash over him, the drops falling from the brim of his hat like tears — John Connolly

Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water. — Jonathan Maberry

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms. — Michael Scott

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

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers. — Heraclitus

When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy. — Xavier Becerra

The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water. — Ridley Pearson

It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. — George Eliot

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

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them. — Vernon Howard

They sat on the edge of a brook and took off their shoes and let the water cut their feet off to the ankles with an exquisite cold razor. — Ray Bradbury

The people who think a guy walked on water versus the people who think a horse can fly. — Scott Adams

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself. — Richard Matheson