Quotes with water-covered

Quotes 141 till 160 of 242.

  • Brendan I. Koerner Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Christina Rossetti She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Sir William Osler Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Buffalo Bill Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alain de Botton The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Prince Philip The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Marilyn Monroe The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Albert Claude The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Plautus The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
    His Life and Wit
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lucretius The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Bradley Chicho The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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