These drinking water quotes will inspire you. Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or use for food preparation.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging drinking water quotes, drinking water sayings, and drinking water proverbs.
Best Drinking Water Quotes
- “Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.” ~ Kevin R. Stone
- “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.” ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
- “In time and with water, everything changes.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” ~ Loren Eiseley
- “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“Water is the soul of the Earth.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.” ~ Bud Shuster
- “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “Water is the best of all things.” ~ Pindar
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“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
- “Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes – one for peace and one for science.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” ~ Mark Twain
- “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.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.” ~ Luna Leopold
- “Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children’s lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.” ~ Luna Leopold
- “Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon’s reflection.” ~ Rumi - “Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.” ~ Jean Giraudoux
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“I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Water is one of the most basic of all needs – we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don’t realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water – and most of them are children!” ~ Robert Alan Aurthur , Safe drinking water quotes
- “Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
- “Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.” ~ Vandana Shiva
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“The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
- “It’s funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It’s great, you purge out all the sweat and you’re drinking water.” ~ Bryan Cranston
- “A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.” ~ Barry Goldwater
- “At the moment there are 1 in 8 people who have no access to clear drinking water, about a billion people worldwide, which can make you feel quite overwhelmed.” ~ Cate Blanchett
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“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- “For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.” ~ Sandra Postel
- “We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don’t waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.” ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
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“And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves.” ~ Paul-Emile Victor
- “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.” ~ Aristotle
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“Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” ~ Langston Hughes
- “Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.” ~ Francis of Assisi
- “We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life-giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.” ~ Jan Erik Vold
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“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.” ~ Carl Sandburg
- “We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.” ~ Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- “Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country…But because water belongs to no one – except the people – special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.” ~ Ralph Nader
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“There’s over a billion people on this planet that don’t have access to clean drinking water.” ~ Michael Moore
- “My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.” ~ Bjorn Lomborg
- “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.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- “It’s really weird how your life changes. Tonight I’m drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?” ~ Bill Hicks
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“Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It’s called rain.” ~ Mike McAlary
- “Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skincare tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I’m a fan of simple and natural products.” ~ Hailey Rhode Baldwin , Importance of drinking water quotes
- “Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It’s like drinking water.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
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“My secret is one the world needs to know – nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.” ~ Bella Thorne
- “If we grew our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t contaminate it.” ~ Mark Boyle
- “The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.” ~ James F. Cooper
- “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.” ~ Paul Harvey
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“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.” ~ Stewart Udall
- “Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.” ~ John Perkins
- “Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let’s try to speed it up… there are too many people.” ~ Doug Stanhope
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“You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.” ~ John Dryden
- “And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water. I am sure that some will say that a rapidly growing market for water is “good for the economy,” and most of us are still affluent enough to pay the cost. Nevertheless, it is a considerable cost that we are now paying for drinkable water, which we once had in plentiful supply at little cost or none at all. And the increasing of the cost suggests that the time may come when the cost will be unaffordable.” ~ Wendell Berry
- “Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.” ~ Aeschylus
- “The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.” ~ Bjorn Lomborg
- “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.” ~ William Ashworth
