Quotes about river
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 laughing life-is-like
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do. Merle Shain
rivers world goats
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life. Michael Chabon
rivers america immigration
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. Ted Nugent
rivers reservoirs
Be a river - not a reservoir. John C. Maxwell
rivers want different
i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know. Louise Erdrich
rivers ice chaos
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
rivers world helping
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. Sherman Alexie
rivers water forests
The only water in the forest is the River. Neil Gaiman
rivers rocks landscape
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms. John Wesley Powell
rivers swim want
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank Nancy Horan
rivers stories stopping
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. Ray Bradbury
rivers blood looks
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood. Enoch Powell
rivers perfect tree
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit. Henry David Thoreau
rivers water
Life in us is like the water in a river.
rivers attention savannah
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. Frederick Reines
rivers memorial political
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers. Franklin D. Roosevelt
rivers feet average
Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
rivers way sometimes
Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river. Paulo Coelho
rivers sea flow
I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.
rivers landscape remains
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. Max Muller
rivers west sometimes
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Maya Angelou
rivers spirit harmony
A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...
rivers tree today
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
rivers botox stories
Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story Norman Chad
rivers water may
We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message. Norbert Wiener
rivers air water
Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves
rivers stories stones
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. Mitch Albom
rivers flow surprise
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O'Donohue
rivers flow may
May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.
rivers east railroads
Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.