Salt Water Quotes

We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby. — Frank Herbert

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea. — Isak Dinesen

Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water. — Milarepa

I want to paper cut her. On every square inch of her body. And then roll her in salt water. — M. Leighton

Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful. — Pippa DaCosta

Your playing is like salt water taffy. You see all the beautiful colors, red, yellow, blue, but they all taste the same. — Marcel Tabuteau

The ocean would be nothing but salt water without her by his side. — Jeyn Roberts

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. — Sun Tzu

I know of a cure for everything: salt water ... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. — Karen Blixen

Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children. — Robin Hobb

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. — Sue Grafton

How much salt water thrown away in waste/
To season love, that of it doth not taste. — William Shakespeare

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. — Nelson Mandela

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper. — Eddie Vedder

I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine. — Rudyard Kipling

I was in the deep water. It was dark and unclear and the taste of the salt was in my mouth. — Raymond Chandler

The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything ... in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea. — Arthur Gordon

(Annabeth says most of that salt water is in my head. Very funny, Wise Girl.) Anyway, — Rick Riordan

If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air. — Nayyirah Waheed

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water. — Anthony Kiedis

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round. — Idries Shah

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count. — Suzanne Collins

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

I stomp through the water in a tight circle, kicking against the salt spray, wanting to pull the world apart piece by piece. — Carrie Ryan

Water drunk more reverently still, from the hands or from the spring itself, diffuses within us the most secret salt of earth and the rain of heaven. — Marguerite Yourcenar

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul — Sebastian Barry

I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory. — Sherman Alexie

Salt water is and isn't the ocean. — Marty Rubin

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying. — Marian Keyes

the water of the lagoon was warm as blood, salt as tears, and astonishingly clear — Gillian Bradshaw

Salt water is cleansing, be it sweat, the ocean, or tears. — Jennifer Nettles

No amphibian succeeded in adapting to salt water. — Ernst W. Mayr

Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt. — Marguerite Duras

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater. — Jared Diamond

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave. — Sonam Rinchen

I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood. — Nick Hornby

THE BIRD AND THE WATER
A bird which has not heard of fresh water
Dips his beak in salt-water year after year.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili) — Idries Shah

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the salt sea. — Karen Blixen

Later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours. — Isabel Allende