Pastoral Resources

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.