#water

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#away #build #businesses #channel #highest

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not. ↗

— James Taylor

#boat #clear #everything #falls #important

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#couched #death #die #door #efforts

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#bent #certain #could #drink #fact

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#century #countryside #dumped #engage #european

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

#even #lotus #must #petals #rises

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cellar #closet #down #first #i

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#atmosphere #becomes #blue #blue sky #body

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. ↗

— John Cleveland

#eyes #here #i #i am #out

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#cannot #covered #denied #did #form