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.

“Stupid misery of fame and money. Always we were safe from it, mistaking our obscurity for a curse when it was a treasure. Free to make what we liked, to be ourselves, even do nothing at all. No one watching. We could be real.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)

“And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 5:39.

“When peaceful clouds were reflected in the paddies
and the water buffalo stepped surely along terraces,
maybe fathers told their sons old tales.
When bombs smashed those mirrors
there was time only to scream.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)