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  • Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

  • Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.

    Ghetto   Tv Shows   Water  
  • Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

  • Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

    Book   School   Loss  
  • 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.

    Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

  • Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

    Mother   Rain   Rivers  
    Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”
  • A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

    Life   Happiness   Smile  
    Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
  • That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.252
  • I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

    Rain   Moving   Memorable  
  • Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

    Rain   Kissing   Water  
    Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

    Rain   Men   Garden  
  • "Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?" "Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam French fries." Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."... I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at us "I do not understand." "I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said. "And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam T-shirt."

    Snacks   Water   Trying  
    "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse". Book by By Rick Riordan, May 1, 2007.
  • To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

    Spring   Fall   Rivers  
  • Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

    Running   Time   Rain  
    "A River Runs Through It" (1976)
  • Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

    Life   Rain   Sky  
  • People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

    Kids   People   Water  
  • Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  • Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

    Art   Rain   Color  
  • Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.

    Rain   Humble   Rivers  
    "Catholicism & Orthodox Christianity". Book by Stephen F. Brown, Khaled Anatolios, p.54, 2009.
  • I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

    Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 1 (1941)
  • Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

    Water   Ink   Fountain  
  • Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  • It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co
  • The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

    Spiritual   Rain   Garden  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”
  • Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

    "A River Runs Through It" (1976)
  • Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

    Children   Rain   Rivers  
    William Ashworth (1982). “Nor any drop to drink”
  • To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

    Rain   Rivers   Water  
    Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA
  • GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.

    Morning   Water   Pills  
  • Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.

    Rain   Power   Land  
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