- Good
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- 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
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it's the linkage and the easiest way, and in the summer, you move around on the water.
- Consecrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
- Sea
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind cold water. I mean, it's fine. Wetsuits will serve you these days; it doesn't really matter.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020