All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Quotes
He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbTill taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbWater has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbIt is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BC