#water

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#days #every #few #italy #new

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#between #canals #channeled #deal #drown

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ↗

— Heraclitus

#ever #flowing #into #other #rivers

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal. ↗

— John Dean

#bill #goldwater #liberal #like #look

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#done #haven #hole #just #make

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#beautiful thing #being #born #children #i

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together. ↗

— John Brough

#boundary #commerce #done #floats #gave

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands. ↗

— Kenelm Digby

#break #endure #every #fire #gallon

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#company #fish #i #i am #ladies

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look