Water Quotes


Man’s history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.                                  
Sigurd F. Olson

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.                 
Loran Eisely

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.                
 Benjamin Franklin

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.                                           
 Jacques Cousteau

Water is the oil of the 21st century.                                
 Andrew Liveris

Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.                   
Antoine De Saint-Exupery