Quotes about river
rivers knowing water
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together! Kenneth Grahame
rivers better-person morphing
Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on. Katie Aselton
rivers silence drink
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. Khalil Gibran
rivers community balance
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development. Lyndon B. Johnson
rivers land forever
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. Louis Bacon
rivers water pieces
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there. Malala Yousafzai
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. Norman MacCaig
rivers water hard
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. Norman Maclean
rivers smell lakes
Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too. Oliver Sacks
rivers water paddling
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
rivers rocks work-out
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. Emile Hirsch
rivers feet childhood
Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
rivers hands environmental
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
rivers flux all-things
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river Heraclitus
rivers water flow
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
rivers steps
You can never step in the same river twice.
rivers feet water
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
rivers progress steps
Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
rivers water flow
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
rivers substance steps
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
rivers water flow
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
rivers blue fiction
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. Henry James
rivers contentment sides
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
river smoke stack
This smoke stack is going to be in the river soon, if we don't do something.
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 care
there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things... Hans Blix
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 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
rivers soul receptive
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. George Eliot