Quotes about river
rivers whole
We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them. Rob Brown
rivers dna tissues
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues Richard Dawkins
rivers able doe
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. Richard Rohr
rivers environmental flow
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone. Roberta Flack
rivers environmental gliding
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. Virgil
rivers wind horny
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. William Henry Ashley
rivers topics kind
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along. William Stafford
rivers waiting silence
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
rivers personality grandfather
I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life. William Least Heat-Moon
rivers joy fishes
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. Zhuangzi
rivers afar fame
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. William Davenant
rivers feet depth
Never test the depth of river with both the feet. Warren Buffett
rivers water dip
Dip him in the river who loves water. William Blake
rivers soul ultima
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things. Rudolfo Anaya
rivers looks hours
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Ralph Waldo Emerson
rivers climate movement
The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. Terry Tempest Williams
rivers bird ankh
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface. Terry Pratchett
rivers water ankh
Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
rivers stones frogs
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?
rivers environmental months
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
rivers culture young
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. Kurt Lewin
rivers events violent
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. Marcus Aurelius
rivers growing language
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. Robert MacNeil
rivers velocity resistance
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either. Swami Vivekananda
rivers long soldier
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in. Tom Waits
rivers world misery
Misery is the River of the World
rivers relax leafs
You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you. Steven Erikson
rivers tea cups
Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. Steve Martin
rivers dinner said
Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
rivers flow truth-is
The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere. Robert Frost
rivers
Only the river is free, always changing but always the same...
rivers people important
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river. Thomas Davis
rivers environmental world
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by. Thomas Cole