| "You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you." »Heraclitus |
| "You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you." »Heraclitus |
| "I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." »Carl Schurz |
| "The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it." »Navajo Chant |
| "Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." »Hans Margolius |
| "People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant." »Lucretius |
| "Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." »Frederick Douglas |
| "The stream we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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