Quotes about river
rivers steps
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Jacques Barzun
rivers water history
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
rivers water world
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien
rivers four six
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Izaak Walton
rivers trying next
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers. Isaac Mizrahi
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 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 feet choices
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience. George Eliot
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.
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 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.
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The river greenway is more up our alley. Bob Kennedy
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That river has a long way to go before we're out of this. Jeff Cohen
rivers lakes people
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. Candice S. Miller
rivers dying way
Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying. Etel Adnan
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A river of words flowed between us. Ernest Cline
rivers bird tree
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee