Quotes about river
rivers water flow
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
rivers individual should
An individual human existence should be like a river Bertrand Russell
river top worried
We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.
rivers vans saturday-night-live
I live in a van, down by the river! Chris Farley
rivers years firsts
First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river. Chris Farley
river valley
We won't be out of Valley River altogether.
rivers air tree
Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment? Deepak Chopra
rivers swerve
They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river. Archibald MacLeish
rivers world hungry
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry. Ben Okri
rivers people gold
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out. Art Linkletter
rivers feelings stones
Cross the river by feeling for stones. Deng Xiaoping
rivers broken guy
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe
rivers people boundaries
Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do. Aristotle
rivers environmental conservation
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. Aldo Leopold
rivers museums environmental
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all. Aldo Leopold
rivers water environmental
Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River. Aldo Leopold
rivers each-day breakfast
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander. Aldo Leopold
rivers broken sun
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans. Aldo Leopold
rivers brave stories
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to. Ali Smith
rivers long feelings
Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time. A. A. Milne
rivers swim stones
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there. A. A. Milne
rivers church towns
Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life. Agatha Christie
rivers joy comfort
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.' Adoniram Judson
rivers feet people
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement. Aleksandar Hemon
rivers sitting tipping
The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck. Cyril Connolly
rivers one-day want
Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know. Danielle Steel
rivers people forever
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river... Danielle Steel
rivers rubies clear
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
rivers dying wells
Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod? Colin Mochrie
rivers awareness
Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is. Ram Dass
river strong tribe warriors
We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river Hunter S. Thompson
rivers trout peculiar
What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river. William Shakespeare
rivers heaven grace
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. Dante Alighieri