Water Rights Quotes

#1. I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

Alice Steinbach

#2. I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

Rod Coronado

#3. Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.

China Mieville

#4. We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it ... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.

Sandra Postel

#5. I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

Charlton Heston

#6. A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine elements.

Roseville Nidea

#7. Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

Paul Farmer

#8. Just don't make it worst... it has happen worst don't change the shoes.

Deyth Banger

#9. My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

Dorothy Malone

#10. Are you drinking because you're sad, or are you drinking to show me how sad you are?

Lauren Groff

#11. None but God can fill the perfect whole.

Philip James Bailey

#12. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva

Josh Groban

#13. Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

Vandana Shiva

#14. Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.

Golshifteh Farahani

#15. During the height of the government enforcement of the Civil Rights Act, some segregated townships filled in their municipal pools rather than let nonwhite kids share in the perverse joy of peeing in the water.

Paul Beatty

#16. Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

David Almond

#17. We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

Sharad Pawar

#18. Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even in early Scripture, the issue of water and forage rights is actually talked about by Abraham?

Matt Shea

#19. Everything hinges on how you relate to your brain. By setting higher expectations, you enter a phase of higher functioning. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.

Deepak Chopra

#20. How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?

Arundhati Roy

#21. Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Gelila Bekele

#22. Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society ... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children.

Max Meyer

#23. Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Yogi Berra

#24. The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Malcolm X

#25. Privatization is a neoliberal and imperialist plan. Health can't be privatized because it is a fundamental human right, nor can education, water, electricity and other public services. They can't be surrendered to private capital that denies the people from their rights.

Hugo Chavez

#26. I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

Alvin A. Bullock

#27. I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

Sojourner Truth

#28. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

Shana Alexander

#30. I have the liberal dictionary right here ... let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'

Jon Stewart

#31. People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.

Tony Benn

#32. Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Alexander Pope

#33. Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life ... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

Mark Udall

#34. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

Fred Hampton

#35. If you think, you are important, you are not.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

Dan Jenkins