Famous quotes containing the words bottom and/or water:
“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of water on which you could walk, and you could see the ripple-marks on its surface, produced by the winds, precisely like those at the bottom of a brook or lake. We had read that Mussulmans are permitted by the Koran to perform their ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understand the propriety of this provision.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)