Top 40 Quotes About Rainwater
#1. His eyes are two buckets of rainwater: deep, fresh, clear. Hurt.
Tahereh Mafi
#2. If you only do one thing, collect rainwater ...
Bill Mollison
#3. As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
Charles Duhigg
#4. I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a rainwater collection system to save rain runoff for later. I also love to fantasize about keeping chickens in the backyard.
Katherine Center
#6. The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.
Helen Macdonald
#7. What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?
Laini Taylor
#8. Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.
Columella
#9. rainwater onto the back of her neck. Her eyes remained defiant.
Anonymous
#10. Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
Toni Morrison
#11. All summer the smells of nettles and daisies and rainwater purl through the gardens.
Anthony Doerr
#12. In the murky puddle of rainwater collected at the entrance of the tomb, I spied my own reflection,a dark, hatted figure against a pewter sky.
Linda Lappin
#13. A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
Pat Conroy
#14. He is rainwater and smoke and wishes. He is honey and wind and bitter as truth and sharp with hurting and endlessly, unbearably sweet. He is air, finally, endlessly
Amy Zhang
#15. The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass.
Thomm Quackenbush
#16. The parched know --
real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky.
Ivan M. Granger
#17. When he'd made it thirty strides or so Logen turned around and looked back. The pot was sitting forlorn by the lake, already filling up with rainwater. They'd been through a lot together, him and that pot. "Fare you well, old friend." The pot did not reply.
Joe Abercrombie
#18. One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.
Charles Duhigg
#19. After I completed the tree climb in the damp mist, my hands were covered with a muddy residue of bark and rainwater, and I was exhausted. But I was very happy.
Ned Hayes
#20. Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.
Frances Beinecke
#21. The logical extension of a burgeoning population and urbanization is the conversion of open spaces into paved ground. This has resulted in flooding of cities as well as water scarcity due to groundwater depletion and the lack of rainwater harvesting.
Anonymous
#22. The scullery roof had sprung a leak: she put down a bowl to catch the drips, but the rainwater spread and darkened, to make treasure maps and Whistler nocturnes of the walls and ceiling.
Sarah Waters
#23. I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind ...
W.G. Sebald
#24. Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens of thousands of homes.
Christopher Flavin
#25. Coca Cola's Eva Water has hypnotized you into thinking that a sip of rainwater can kill you.
S.A. David
#26. A strange breeze rustled through the clearing, temporarily overpowering the stink of trash and murk. It brought the smell of berries and wildflowers and clean rainwater, things that might've once been in these woods. Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never knew.
Rick Riordan
#27. I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything.
Richard Rainwater
#28. The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
James Rainwater
#30. If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.
Richard Rainwater
#31. My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
James Rainwater
#32. The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.
James Rainwater
#33. In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
James Rainwater
#34. Someone asked me what are the secrets to my success, and I said 'There are three: Timing, timing, timing.'
Richard Rainwater
#35. I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.
Richard Rainwater
#36. He realized with sudden clarity that the power axis in a conflict shifted once your adversary had heard you plead for divine intervention while her hands and mouth and body brought you to screaming climax on her kitchen table.
Jane Rainwater
#37. There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.
Richard Rainwater
#38. The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
Richard Rainwater
#39. I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.
Richard Rainwater
#40. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
Jane Rainwater
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