Drinking Water Contaminated

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

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

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

    I respect the ways of old folks, but the blood of a rooster or a goat cannot turn the seasons, change the course of the clouds and fill them up with water like bladders. The other night, at the ceremony for Legba, I danced and sang my fill: I am a black man, no? and I enjoyed it like a true Negro should. When the drums beat, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel the itch in my hips and up and down my legs, I have got to join the party. But that is all.
    Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errors are only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
    —J.G. (John Gabriel)