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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.
Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!
The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.
Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.
Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.
What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?
I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.
It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.
If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.
The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy
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.
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.
Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
I'm afraid of open bodies of water. I was in a glass-bottomed boat that broke a long time ago, so I've always been kind of freaked out.
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
I always have water, tons of water. It's even in my bathroom because I used to be so bad at drinking water, and I want to stay hydrated.
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?
After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.
I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
Learning how to swim is the biggest achievement for me, as it helped me get rid of hydrophobia. Now I have become a complete water baby.
When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.