#water

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#done #haven #hole #just #make

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. ↗

— John Muir

#cathedrals #churches #consecrated #dam #ever

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#beautiful thing #being #born #children #i

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

#being #born #development #does #drop

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? ↗

— Marion Berry

#because #blame #break #fix #i

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together. ↗

— John Brough

#boundary #commerce #done #floats #gave

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands. ↗

— Kenelm Digby

#break #endure #every #fire #gallon

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#company #fish #i #i am #ladies

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#clean #communities #country #dakota #drinking

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#dirty #i #me #say #scotch