#water

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. ↗

— David Suzuki

#activity #altering #carbon #cycle #earth

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun. ↗

— David Suzuki

#about #air #better #create #every

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#about #actor #around #arrested #being

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#blood #cinema #cut #everywhere #hoses

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#almost #am #color #concentrating #concrete

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

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

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

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#become #check #confirm #days #dogma