Water Quotes
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures
Walter Prescott Webb
Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.
Bettina Boxall
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
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
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
Barry Goldwater
Water is King, and he is Knight who uses it successfully to make two blades grow where nature produced none.
J. S. Sherman
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
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Water is the most basic of all resources. Civilizations grew or withered depending on its availability.
Dr. Nathan W. Snyder
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
