Safe Drinking Water

Famous quotes containing the words drinking water, safe, drinking and/or water:

“When drinking water, don’t forget those who dug the well.”
—Chinese proverb.

“In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure
Of drinking at somebody else’s expense.”
—Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837–1883)

“All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)