Water quotes. According to the most recent estimates, more than one billion people still do not have access to clean water sources. In some countries of Asia and Africa, the average distance taken every day to get water is about 6 kilometers on foot, with an average load of 20 kilos on the shoulders on the return journey. While in Italy we consume 200 liters per capita per day. The World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 of each year, the matter of which our life is made.
I present below a collection of sentences, water quotes and aphorisms on water.
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Water offers no resistance. The water flows. When you dip a hand in the water you only feel a caress. Water is not a wall, it cannot stop you. It goes where it wants to go and nothing can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water consumes a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember that half of you are water. If you can’t overcome an obstacle, go around it. How does water
(Margaret Atwood)
There is a millennial deposit of fresh water in my soul.
(Abdelmajid Benjelloun)
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
(Loren Eiseley)
We ourselves are made of water. Humans are the way that water has found to get away even from rivers.
(Anonymous)
There are coves where water seems like a thing to drink with your eyes, like a light never seen before.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
Here’s how you have to be! You have to be like water. No obstacles – it flows. Find a dam, then stop. The dam breaks, flows again. In a square container, it is square. In one round, it is round. That’s why it’s more indispensable than anything else. Nothing exists in the world more adaptable than water. And yet when she falls on the ground, persisting, nothing can be stronger than her.
(Lao Tzu)
Until justice flows like water and right like a mighty river.
(Martin Luther King Jr)
He serenely contemplated the river current; never had he liked a water like this, never had he heard the voice and the meaning of the water passing so strong and so beautiful. It seemed to him that the river had something special to say to him, something he did not yet know, something that awaited him.
(Hermann Hesse)
From the hand of fate I drank some water and it was clear again like the mornings when I was with you and I was happy
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
Thus, with a devoted gesture, drinking the water in the hollow of the hands or directly at the source, causes the most secret salt of the earth and the rain of the sky to penetrate us.
(Marguerite Yourcenar)
Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, finding secret paths that no one else has thought of: a hole in the roof or a small hole in the bottom of a box. Without a doubt it is the most versatile of the five elements, It can wash away the earth, put out the fire, rust a piece of metal and consume it. Even wood, which is its natural complement, cannot survive unless it is nourished by water.
(Arthur Golden)
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Your mind is like this water, my friend: when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see, but if you allow it to calm down, the answer appears clear to you.
(From the movie Kung Fu Panda)
Water has no memory: that’s why it is so clear.
(water quotes by Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
What does the sleeping water dream about?
(Sylvain Tesson)
Clear, fresh and sweet waters, where the beautiful limbs posed the one who alone seems to me a woman
(Francesco Petrarca)
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Water is condescending, mobile, transparent, tasteless. One easily gets the impression that, in comparison with the rest of reality, it is somehow otherworldly.
(Philip Ball)
The rushing water in the stream rests in my hands for a moment before returning to the chaos of the world.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
If the Earth were smooth, it would all be covered in water to a depth of four kilometers. In such a lonely ocean, life could very well be there, but certainly there would be no football games.
(Bill Bryson)
Water is the matter of life. It is matrix, mother and a half. There is no life without water.
(Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)
We never know the value of water until the well dries up.
(Thomas Fuller)
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Water is the force that hardens you,
in the water you find yourself and renew yourself:
we think of you as a seaweed, a pebble,
like an equitable creature
that the salt does not affect
but returns to the purest quarrel.
(Eugenio Montale
Who has a pure heart, has all the purifying waters of the Ganges at home.
(Indian proverb)
The more drops of clean water there are, the more the world will shine with beauty.
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
You can be happy even by eating a very simple food, drinking pure water and having only your arm folded as a pillow.
(Confucius)
In the whole universe there is nothing softer and weaker than water. But nothing is equal to her in her way of opposing what is hard. Nothing can change the water. That weakness wins strength, that softness wins hardness everyone on earth knows, but nobody is able to do the same.
(Lao Tzu)
What is harder than a stone and softer than water? Yet the soft water digs the hard stone.
(Ovid)
Falling, the drop digs the stone, not for its strength, but for its constancy.
(Lucretius)
Water is the substance from which all things originate; its smoothness also explains the changes in things themselves. This conception derives from the observation that animals and plants feed on humidity, that foods are rich in juices and that living beings dry up after death.
(Thales)
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Water marries continuously. It does not marry, as it does, all forms, that because it marries itself continuously
(Roger Munier)
Even a drop of water has the ability to love when it falls on a yellowed blade of grass and quenches it.
(Roman Battle)
I lay down
in an urn of water this morning
and
rested like a relic .
(Giuseppe Ungaretti)
The water speaks tirelessly but never repeats itself.
(Octavio Paz)
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Mountain
water spring
water rainwater
sovereign
water water that hears
water that praises
water that rings
water that shines
water that sings and weep
water that laughs and dies.
You are life
and you always run away
(Gabriele d’Annunzio) water quotes
I looked her in the eyes: they looked like a deep pool of spring water, in the shadow of a quiet rock that no wind could reach.
(Haruki Murakami)
Raise your body to the rain clouds, your breath fills with water. Look at the shape of the drops, yourself, reflected as an image.
(Tiina Lehikoinen)
The mind is a sponge, the heart is running water. It is not strange that most of us prefer to absorb rather than run.
(Khalil Jibran)
The water melts the hair in the falls.
(water quotes by Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
So it can be concluded that the water goes from the rivers to the sea and from the sea to the rivers, always turning around and turning around, and that all the sea and rivers have passed through the mouth of the Nile infinite times.
(Leonardo da Vinci
Culture is a primary common good like water; theaters, libraries, cinemas are like many aqueducts.
(Claudio Abbado)
How can you decide to have a child if all they do is say that the water runs out in twenty years, the asteroid arrives in thirty five and the sun goes out in a thousand. To this I leave it without water, electricity and gas?
(Teresa Mannino)
We spend millions and millions looking for water on Mars and we do nothing to keep it here and to look for more for those who are thirsty.
(José Luis Sampedro)
They say that to save water and save the planet it would be enough to take only one shower a week, change your underwear every three days and socks every four. For some males I don’t think it would be a problem.
Luciana Littizzetto
Currently a billion people do not have access to drinking water, yet more than 20,000 liters of water are needed to produce one kilogram of beef.
(Umberto Veronesi)
Conflicts are taking place between two opposing cultures: the one that sees water as something sacred, whose fair distribution represents a duty to preserve life, and the one that considers it a commodity and considers its possession and trade two fundamental rights of company.
(Vandana Shiva)
I wanted to ask you why you called Earth a planet made up of 70% water, but first I will ask you why you called yourself Sapiens.
(lddio, Twitter)
On the water you can and must be optimistic. The important thing is to see the planet half full!
(Francesco Fagnani)
Water is a basic right for all human beings: without water there is no future. Access to water is a common goal. It is a central element in the social, economic and political fabric of the country, the continent, the world. Water is democracy.
(Nelson Mandela)
Without water the earth does not bloom; nor the soul without tears.
(Nicolò Tommaseo)
Alcohol hurts, but water does even worse: it kills you if you don’t drink it!
(Jaume Perich)
I don’t drink alcohol. Not by virtue, but because there is a drink that I like best: water.
(Jorge Luis Borges)
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
(Henry David Thoreau)
I never drink water because of the disgusting things fish do in it.
(Anonymous)
All medical discoveries can be traced back to the short formula: moderately drunk water is not harmful.
(Mark Twain)
If a man’s fate is to drown, he will also drown in a glass of water.
(Yiddish proverb)
The wickedness of men lives in bronze, we write their virtues on the water.
(William Shakespeare)
All the secrets of the oceans are found in a drop of water.
(Khalil Gibran)
The cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.
(Karen Blixen)
The most supreme good is like water. Water gives life to countless things, and this does not cost her any effort. It flows in places that men reject: water, therefore, is like the Tao.
(Lao Tzu)
Laudato si ‘, my Lord, through Sor’Acqua,
which is a useful and humble et pretiosa et caste fine.
(St. Francis of Assisi)
Happiness cannot be held back, it eludes us, it is like water flowing elsewhere after having brightly mirrored us for a moment.
(Fabrizio Caramagna)
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