Quotes on water
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Pascal, Blaise
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Henri, Robert
Water flows uphill towards money.
Anonymous
I hate water. Fish fuck in it.
Fields, W.C.
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
Dillard, Annie
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.
Unknown, Author
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
Thoreau, Henry David
The great sea makes one a great sceptic.
Jefferies, Richard
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Lowell, James Russell
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
Tomlinson, H.M.
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Eiseley, Loren
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe.
Beach, Joseph W.
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
Conrad, Joseph