Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Rowe

I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

Kim Alexis

I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

Kathleen Battle

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.

J. K. Rowling

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

H. L. Mencken

[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least.

George Herbert

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.

I fished a lot with him when he was young, and I kind of turned him on to the spot where we fished there on the river then.

Herbert Simon

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

Jack Kerouac

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Guy Kawasaki

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Indira Gandhi

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

They look like river ships, but scaled up.

It was just too much River and not enough Kelso tonight.

John Fogerty

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

Kate Atkinson

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

Paullina Simons

Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

Paullina Simons

You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

Mary Oliver

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.

Mary Oliver

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

Rachel Carson

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Prince William

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Prince Philip

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

Leo Tolstoy

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

Larry McMurtry

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Rabindranath Tagore

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

John Kitzhaber

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

Joseph Conrad

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

Langston Hughes

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.