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How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. . . . . The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. (Quote by - Samuel Woodworth)

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it (Quote by - John Florio)

The Gods were looking down on us - now I'm off to have a few glasses of water to celebrate! And the car is safely docked. (Quote by - Bryan Robson)

A little water is a sea to an ant. (Quote by - Afghan proverb)

Never a ship sails out of the bay But carries my heart as a stowaway. (Quote by - Roselle Mercier Montgomery)

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference. (Quote by - Rachel Carlson)

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people." (Quote by - Michael Bolton)

There is no small pleasure in pure water. (Quote by - Ovid)

Water for me is so essential, like swimming (Quote by - Nastassja Kinski)

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. (Quote by - African Proverb)

The best [man] is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)

When there is enough water, there will be evaporation. (Quote by - Anonymous)

How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight. (Quote by - Elizabeth Oakes Smith)

And thou, vast ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace. (Quote by - Robert Montgomery)

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. (Quote by - Jonathan Raban)

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. (Quote by - Hannah More)

Praise the sea; on shore remain. (Quote by - John Florio)

Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. (Quote by - Sir Roger L'Estrange)

Water is clearly vital for life. What is perhaps more surprising is that water plays a crucial role in lubricating the motion of plates; without it there would be no plate tectonics. So water quickens life and the Earth itself. (Quote by - David Singleton)

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

The rising world of waters dark and deep. (Quote by - John Milton)

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