Would this be permanent?

Smile, you're on candid camera!

gardenspice, yes it will be permanent-etched in the tile.
codnuggets, LOL, I actually thought of that one (great minds think alike)
sure hoping to hear more to choose from
Thanks

I think you might get sick of something too cutesy. Maybe just a list of water/bath related words or the word water in several different languages

'See the squeegee? Go ahead, use it'

budgel, even though Smile, you're on Candid Camera, had come to mind, I thought the same thing....just too cutesy.
I do like your idea of the water/bath related words or using the different languages.

"Save water, shower together"
"April showers...."
"Sing!"
Actually I prefer the tasteful ones over the silly ones, but since I don't have to live with it I'll try to come up with some whoppers :)

If you find my (diamond ring, pet snake, etc) let me know

Those are all good, everyone.
bluekit, I would definitely prefer something tasteful as our grandchildren will be using this show.....something tasteful and not too silly or too cutesy would be ideal.
(Even something serious and thoughtful would be nice)

From my favorite poem [though the rest of the verses would be inappropriate]:

There Will Come Soft Rains...

YIKES, oruboris! I love that poem too but you wouldn't want to leave razor blades out anywhere nearby if that's up permanently...

If grandkids will be using it then try "water" (also "ocean," "rain," etc) in multiple languages, including chemistry (H2O and diagrams), and never mind all the rest of the rude things flitting around in my fuzzy brain. Maybe they'll learn something :) Let us know what you end up with -- it sounds like a fun project.

How about:

Water - The Elixir of Life

Or for something more fun:

I'm singin' and dancin' in the rain...

From The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

How about

HONESTLY!! I JUST GOT OUT OF THE POOL!!

:-)

How about the Chinese character for water:

Looks to me like Ted Kennedy's monogram!! LOL

"And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters"
"Resolution and Independence", Henry Wordsworth

"In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone."
Ovid, 13 A.D.

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
Loran Eisley (Anthropologist), The Immense Journey, 1957

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

-- Kahlil Gibran

The dream of my life
is to lie down by a slow river
and stare at the light in the trees ~
to learn something by being nothing

-- Mary Oliver, from "Entering the Kingdom"

And if the earth has forgotten you
Say to the still earth: I am flowing.
To the rushing waters say: I am.

--Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your headwith silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
- Langston Hughes, April Rain Song, 1902 - 1967

Everywhere water is a thing of beauty gleaming in the dewdrop,
singing in the summer rain.
- John Ballantine Gough

I came where the river
Ran over stones;
My ears knew
An early joy.
And all the waters
Of all the streams
Sang in my veins
That summer day.
- Theodore Roethke, The Waking, 1948

When you hear the splash
Of the water drops that fall
Into the stone bowl
You will feel that all the dust
Of your mind is washed away.
- Sen-No-Rikyu

The sound of the water
says what I think.
- Chuang Tzu

"I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again."

Arthur Freed

This is fun. I love the idea. What do you think of these?

Wow, so many good ideas this morning. Thank you all so much. I'll have to mull it all around now and decide what to do. Jeanie

Rubber ducky, you're the one!

or

Well there's no place to sing like the shower
I'm a real Pavarotti when I get lathered up
I boom out the low notes and glide through the middle
For the high parts I step on the old rubber duck
And I know that my audience loves me because
The spray hits the curtain with thunderous applause
There's only one flaw in my musical glee
I wish you could be there with me

One more idea:

Shower the people you love with love

Gutta cavat lapidem (Dripping water hollows out a stone)
- Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto, Book 3, no. 10, 1. 5

Smile, du er opp pa oppriktig kameraet.

Thanks again, everyone.
The saying above is "Smile, you are on Camera Camera" in Norwegian. My maternal grandparents came from Norway. If I figure out how to post picturs on the forum, I will post one when this is done. :)