Quotes about river
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The river greenway is more up our alley. Bob Kennedy
rivers used niagara
I used to waterski on the Niagara River. Kim Alexis
rivers escaping heaven
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom. Kathleen Battle
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It was just too much River and not enough Kelso tonight.
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That river has a long way to go before we're out of this. Jeff Cohen
rivers environmental way
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. Henry David Thoreau
rivers lakes east
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.
rivers america navy
While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
rivers mind suffering
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier
rivers hands sailing
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.. Jerome K. Jerome
rivers doubt boards
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
rivers goes-on
The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me. Jackie Kennedy
rivers creeks revenue
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. Jim Fowler
rivers environmental knows
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. George William Curtis
rivers differences mountain
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. Jefferson Davis
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In a life properly lived, you’re a river, Jim Harrison
rivers drawing decision
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. Herbert Simon
rivers water soul
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. Gretel Ehrlich
rivers dangerous careless
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.
rivers sea flow
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Gregory Corso
rivers promise stories
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting. Gregory David Roberts
rivers differences tree
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. Ian Somerhalder
rivers tree environment
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.
rivers bridges crosses
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
rivers waiting feelings
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. George Eliot
rivers flow dip
Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it Gary Paulsen
rivers neighbour
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. George Herbert
rivers parent doe
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next. Christopher Buckley
rivers rowing nothing-new
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. Fanny Kemble
rivers flow sacred
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) Euripides
rivers light fame
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
rivers feminist feminism
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics. Florence King
rivers movement bed
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. Henri Bergson