Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

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

Allan Lichtman

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

Ann Landers

People, like water, seek their own level.

Amanda Beard

Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

Amanda Beard

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

A. J. Jacobs

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.

A. A. Milne

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

Adam Gopnik

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

We are day by day. We have no water running!

When the water recedes, you can see any buckling and contraction that wouldn't be there when it's wet.

Alicia Witt

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

D. J. MacHale

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

D. H. Lawrence

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

well, the water is going down, so it's getting better.

Debby Ryan

Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

Donna Brazile

Trent Lott saved my family. I needed three things from him personally, and he came through for me. He made sure that the ice that we desperately needed was delivered. He got us ice, insulin and water. The food came as well. He put politics aside and made sure my family was ok. I will always thank him for that.

Don King

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Dwight L. Moody

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Duke Kahanamoku

Out of the water, I am nothing.

Duke Kahanamoku

Out of water, I am nothing.

Duke of Wellington

Always make water when you can.

Douglas Wilson

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

Douglas William Jerrold

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Donald Miller

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

Donald Miller

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

Dodie Smith

Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

Desmond Tutu

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

Deepak Chopra

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

Andrew Schneider

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.