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Quotations regarding 'Water'

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Aeschylus, Greek Poet
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop, Greek Author
True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
George D. Aiken, American Politician (1892-1984)
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Shana Alexander, American Journalist (1925-2005)
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali, American Athlete (1942-  )
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar, Indian Politician (1891-1956)
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher (1821-  )
I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.
Richard Dean Anderson, American Actor (1950-  )
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou, American Poet (1928-  )
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Ludovico Ariosto, Poet (1474-1533)
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette, American Actress (1959-  )
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Shawn Ashmore, Canadian Actor (1979-  )
We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.
Les Aspin, American Politician (1938-1995)
Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.
Christopher Atkins, American Actor (1961-  )
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist (1939-  )
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden, English Poet (1907-1973)
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman Ralph Augustine, American Author (1935-  )
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
Mary Austin, American Writer (1868-1934)
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint (1515-1582)
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba, Indian Leader
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