Water Quotes

Aquifer: a mysterious, magical and poorly defined area beneath the surface of the earth that either yields or withholds vast or lesser quantities of standing/flowing water, the quantity and/or quality of which is dependent on who is describing it or how much money may be at stake.

R. Radden

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

Beth Nielsen Chapman

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

Lao-Tsze

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

J.S. Blackie

If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.

John F. Kennedy

Water is the most basic of all resources. Civilizations grew or withered depending on its availability.

Dr. Nathan W. Snyder

Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water.

Paolo Lugari

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I have left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which owing to its changefulness of form and mood and colour and to the vast range of its effects is ever the principal source of landscape beauty, and has like music a mysterious influence over the mind.

Sir George Sitwell

Til taught by pain, men really know not what good water is worth.

Don Juan

Water is King, and he is Knight who uses it successfully to make two blades grow where nature produced none.

J. S. Sherman

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

Barry Goldwater

There has been a lot said about the sacredness of our land which is our body; and the values of our culture which is our soul; but water is the blood of our tribes, and if its life-giving flow is stopped, or it is polluted, all else will die and the many thousands of years of our communal existence will come to an end.

Frank Tenorio

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

You could write the story of man's growth in terms of his epic concerns with water.

Bernard Frank