Quotes about Running Water

Chicanos and running water are endlessly fascinating. I can watch them all day. Votes: 4

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. Votes: 4

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. Votes: 4

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. Votes: 4

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them. Votes: 4

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. Votes: 4

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world. Votes: 4

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help. Votes: 4

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. Votes: 4

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful. Votes: 4

Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well. Votes: 4

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal. Votes: 4

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si. Votes: 4

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. Votes: 3

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. Votes: 3

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water. Votes: 3

What a woman tells her lover in desireshould be written out on air & running water. Votes: 3

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water. Votes: 3

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it. Votes: 3

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. Votes: 3

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air. Votes: 3

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life. Votes: 3

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 3

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow. Votes: 3

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet. Votes: 3

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things. Votes: 3

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present. Votes: 3

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy. Votes: 3

The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving. Votes: 3

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available. Votes: 3

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel. Votes: 3

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers. Votes: 3

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread. Votes: 3

Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it. Votes: 3

The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these. Votes: 3

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. Votes: 3

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production~? Votes: 3

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production? Votes: 3

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water Votes: 3

My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts. Votes: 3

Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis) Votes: 3

Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort. Votes: 3

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy. Votes: 3

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. Votes: 3

I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple! Votes: 3

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. Votes: 3

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. Votes: 3

You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself 'Samuel Conrad'. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat- as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone. Votes: 3

I drink tons of water, because with the entire running around you can get dehydrated. Votes: 2

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. Votes: 2

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing. Votes: 2

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect. Votes: 2

I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I'd sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve - when you're in the water having a great time, you're not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock. Votes: 2

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. Votes: 2

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.' Votes: 2

Running water never grows stale. Votes: 0

Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality. Votes: 0

I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool. Votes: 0

Don't waste water even if you were at a running stream Votes: 0

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. Votes: 0

Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense Votes: 0

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! Votes: 0

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain. Votes: 0

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way. Votes: 0

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise. Votes: 0

If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again. Votes: 0

You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy. Votes: 0

...his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks. Votes: 0

I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands Votes: 0

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out? Votes: 0

The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream. Votes: 0

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air. Votes: 0

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me. Votes: 0