“I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away.”

“One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
And on that day, nothing clever to say.”

“Baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears.”

“That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”

“Oh, I'm staying in today. And watch the others play. Oh, wash my sins away. Like all good children I mean what I say.”

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Say what you mean and mean what you say,
before the wall of water washes you away…”

“Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.”