Water Quotes (3828 Quotes)

Who has the authority to set the price of water How do you take away the rights of cities and towns I don't think anyone has the authority to force conservation.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

Let him never look at the sun, when he sets or rises, is eclipsed or reflected in water, or stands in the middle of the sky.

We had some fish located, but we could only reach a couple of the areas due to the high wind and rough water.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

We have to get some rain if there is going to be any water in October.

O mind, love the Lord, as the fish loves the water. The more the water, the more the happiness, and the greater the peace of mind and body. Without water, she cannot live, even for an instant. God knows the suffering of her mind.

Because of the dam, the water was so calm you could paddle up and down. The rest of the river is a one-way river.

Eradication of this unquenchable shrub tamarisk will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.

Hopefully we get way over what we have 150 percent would be great farmers wouldn't worry about the water no talk about shutting off irrigation we really need the water so hopefully it'll be a good year.

Already elephants are migrating out of the parks to the periphery near villages to hunt for water.

Transpiration can have a cooling effect on an area's climate just like when you perspire-heat is wicked away with the water.

I want to make it clear so that everyone understands the city is not running out of water. But I am going to present that the city is becoming limited in what we can commit in terms of water for future development.

One great example of the way Tweed really helped the Irish was when the water started to overflow from the Croton Reservoir, it went to certain parts of Manhattan but not to where the poor lived. The mythology of the dirty Irish developed because they had no water, not until Tweed, through aggravation or bribery, got the water to flow through poor neighborhoods.

It helps prove the point the centralized interim storage makes more sense. Once you start moving it, it blows the whole 'mobile Chernobyl' argument out of the water.

People trapped in the city are in desperate need of water and supplies, ... We are ferrying them in as much as we can, but it's unfathomable.

Although a cloth be washed a hundred times, How can it be rendered clean and pure If it be washed in water which is dirty.

With a 13-event format, there's little margin for error. We need more front-end, easy speed, and we need more lively arms in the water. We looked too heavy last week.

It's the secret for beautiful guacamole or fruit salad. Also potatoes, cauliflower and turnips stay white when you add lemon juice to the cooking water.

Remember last year 'Gregg, you can't stop the run with that defensive line.' 'Gregg, these guys can't rush the passer.' I don't know why I didn't cut my wrist and lay in a hot tub of water. Every one of them played with an attitude.

We will continue to fight the rate increase. Our position, as you are aware, is that we are being overcharged and money is not being re-invested into the water company. Why do we pay more than 40 percent higher rates then our surrounding communities There is no need other than greed by the water company.

The only thing I can say is that his proposal would strengthen and enhance enforcement of all aspects of the water law. But the proposal does not address the issues we are concerned about.

The biggest problem facing us is the amount of water they're letting into the creek from Lake Hamilton, ... They don't have the right to flood us. We need an advocate to represent us.

We need to look at our cash flow annually, and we keep seeing an increase in costs. Water is one place where adjustments need to be made on a fairly regular basis.

One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.

It puts you back on the water after being off the water for a month and a half. Sometimes doing land practice workouts gets real tiring. It kind of renews the spirit of the team.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

We were totally self-contained with our own food and everything. We didn't want to take even one bottle of water away from these people. When we told them we were doing this for free, they looked at us like we were crazy or something.

We started out below sea level but we've got our head above water now. We've made a lot of steady progress. ... Some players who were struggling early are coming around and figuring things out.

This blows the rest of the programs out of the water.

Despite multiple warnings that the levees couldn't withstand a hurricane of Katrina's magnitude despite this administration's assurances that the federal government is capable of handling a crisis of this magnitude despite the drum beating over the efficacy of Homeland Security and despite Bush's assurances that things are under somehow under control down there, thousands of American citizens are without food and water, homeless, sick or dying in place, with no help in sight,

This room here, water was just gushing in all the way to the kitchen.

A little bit of success is like blood in the water for sharks.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Water is the elixir of life, water contain medicines

Luckily, we are on higher ground, so we'll be one of the houses out of the water first when it recedes. What I can say is that we're the best of the worst.

We slept on the floor, there was most often no electricity, and we had no running water, ... We were allowed to bathe once a month, though in the summer we bathed more often in the river.

It looks like we'll see a rapid rise in the tides, Wednesday night. We could lose the beaches where the water is all the way up to the dunes by Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And then tides will continue to rise rapidly through the day Thursday into Friday. It's going to be a nail biter.

A lot of people don't know that Chicago actually sits on an ancient reef. Most of Chicago was under water until 340 million years ago.

It's a miracle that he survived, ... He has skin burn and he was dehydrated and you can estimate he probably went at least a day or two without water.

I was getting . . . hey, do we see a pattern here ... I was getting out of another relationship at the time and I thought, 'What is going on Should I marry this person or not' In the bridge of the song, it says, 'Maybe I'll settle down, get married Or stay single and stay free Which road I'll travel is still a mystery to me.' But I realized I didn't have to make that decision in that moment. I realized I could sit there, dangle my feet in the water and have another beer.

I think the market is saying that the Dow has been flat for a year. If you look at the Nasdaq, it's up 40 percent year to year. And so the Nasdaq is going to correct probably quicker than the Dow, or the Dow will tread water, while the Nasdaq continues to come in.

Some live by the shore, some live on the water some study the Vedas.

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Water is coming up and we are just dealing with it,

There is no other place to put that storm water. And in absence of another place to put it, you're looking at road way and residential flooding during a rain event.

To say that the Republican Party has been involved in some sort of water torture for America is to simply ignore the fact that this water torture has been inflicted by the president, ... Meet the Press.