Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
Steve Earle

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
Neil Young

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
Buffalo Bill

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
David Bowie

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
Paul Tsongas

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.
Brad Paisley

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
Michael Stipe

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
Evel Knievel

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Olive Schreiner