1,262 Quotes About Water

  • Author Billy Tauzin
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    You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

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  • Author Desmond Tutu
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    People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

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  • Author Georg Trakl
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    Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

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  • Author Josh Turner
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    I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

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