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«A little water is a sea to an ant»
Author: Afghan Proverb | About: Water | Keywords: ant
«Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.»
«In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.»
«The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.»
«In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference»
«It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water»
Author: Arab Proverb | About: Water | Keywords: goes out, wise to
«Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Water | Keywords: homesick, someday
«Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.»
«Keep your head above water»
Author: Proverb | About: Water
«As much use as a yard of pump water»
Author: Proverb | About: Water | Keywords: pump, pumping, pumps, yard

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