Leaning Water Tower

Famous quotes containing the words leaning, water and/or tower:

    A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (20th century)

    Lord, crack their teeth! Lord, crush these lions’ jaws!
    So let them sink as water in the sand;
    When deadly bow their aiming fury draws,
    Shiver the shaft ere past the shooter’s hand.
    So make them melt as the dishoused snail
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm LVIII (Paraphrased by the Countess of Pembroke)

    The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.
    Chinese proverb.