Water Quotes

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

~ Dave Barry

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

~ Mitch Hedberg

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

~ Unknown

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

~ Summer Sanders

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

~ Ridley Scott

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

~ Josh Billings

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

~ Howard Stern

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

~ Groucho Marx

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

~ Stendhal

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

~ Ian Goldin

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

~ Alan Clark

Friendship and money: oil and water.

~ Mario Puzo

The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.

~ Bradley Chicho

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

~ Emma Mclaughlin

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.

~ Margot Robbie

My mom is big on moisturizer and water. She always reminds me to drink a lot of water and wear sunglasses because I always forget them when I go out, even though they are one of my favorite accessories. She always reminds me about wrinkles, and always did, so it's kind of been ingrained into me.

~ Brittany Snow

Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

~ Jesse Ventura

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

~ Darrell Issa

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

~ Moon Unit Zappa

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

~ David Suzuki

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

~ Lucretius

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

~ Luke Evans

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

~ Wangari Maathai

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

~ Maximillian Degenerez

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

~ Nastassja Kinski

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

~ Lao Tzu

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

~ Dennis Rodman

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

~ Sylvia Earle

I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.

~ Vidya Balan

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

~ Earl Hines

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

~ Dave Gahan

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

~ Wallace Stevens

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

~ Horace

Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.

~ Jakob Böhme

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

~ Leymah Gbowee

I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy, you in a way look fit.

~ Arjun Rampal

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

~ Malcolm Turnbull