Top 100 Watering Quotes & Sayings

The almond grows very contentedly alongside olives. I discovered that while in Israel - both trees require only sparse watering once established.

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

I wasn't a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived 'cause it made things seem more normal.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn!

We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.

When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

It's really cool because it's all exactly my vision. I'm not watering anything down.

To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

In environments that are energy-rich but liquid-poor, like near the surface of Titan, natural selection may favor organisms that use their metabolic heat to melt their own watering holes.

As weird as it may seem, I enjoy doing laundry and watering my plants, very normal things like that.

When watering your plants, try to talk to them - say something like, Hold it right there and then shoot them with water gun.

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.

I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.

Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

Folly growes without watering.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

I enjoy writing and directing a lot. For a long time, I was dabbling in many different things. I've been thinking of an analogy, and I think it works. It's like I had all these different flowers and I was watering them all evenly, so they were growing at the same level.

I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.

The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout!

At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

There's a watering down of sensibilities in commercial films and I don't seem to fit into that.

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.

I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer, is the watering down process of story. You have to market to the masses and not offend anybody.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

We should be redoubling our own efforts to combat climate change, not watering them down.

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

Having two bowlers who can exceed 90 mph is a mouth-watering prospect - and something batsmen will not relish one bit.

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.