Water Over The Dam Quotes

#1. The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."

Sandra Cisneros

#2. first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment...

Dave Duncan

#3. Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole."
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

Rick Riordan

#4. A dam doesn't try to reason with the water. Its main purpose is to hold it still for a while. When I lecture my kids I'm doing much the same thing. I'm not trying to necessarily reason with them, just hold them still for a short while.

Spuds Crawford

#5. To be a queen-that would not sweeten the bitter water against which I had been building the dam in my soul. It might strengthen the dam, though.

C.S. Lewis

#6. When the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

Howard Snell

#7. 'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.

Kristina McMorris

#8. Every saved soul was a pebble into the stream that was my broken heart. I threw every pebble in and hoped the water would dam, hoped the hurt would fade, hoped the memories would fade. But the stream never dried, the hurt never ceased, and my pain never healed.

Alessandra Torre

#9. Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.

Ted Cruz

#10. But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

William Arthur Ward

#12. She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.

Raymond Chandler

#13. England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Lydia M. Child

#14. One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

John Muir

#15. Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

Franny Billingsley

#16. The summer of 1830 I ... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill ... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Ezra Cornell

#17. Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they'll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

Mark Gonzales

#18. One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam.

William Maxwell

#19. Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam.

Modest Mouse

#20. He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here.

Roni Loren

#21. Dear "J"


For the deepest love I have ever known
Through the pain my soul's enriched and I have grown

Maggie Brown

#22. Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

Harry Leon Wilson

#23. Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body.

David A. Bednar

#24. Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?

Rick Riordan

#25. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

Annie Proulx