All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987
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No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCEvery memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCGreeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Till 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, 1931The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCI came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCBest is water.
—Pindar, 476 BC