- Nov 07, 2020
Water Quotes
From scarcity to a daily habit, in one word.
These water quotes cover real ground, including a childhood memory of growing up without hot water and a pointed observation about how unevenly water access is rationed between Israel and the West Bank. The Good collection touches on related everyday gratitude.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human body is not designed for swimming in minus 1.7 degree centigrade water.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
- Curly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020