Quotes about rivers
rivers drawing rocks
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. Alan Lee
rivers clouds woods
We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I love the woods in Sandy, but it's an hour away, so I don't love that. David Giuntoli
rivers advice environmental
You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done. David R. Brower
rivers mind environmental
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.
rivers environmental way
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
rivers safe lasts
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. Buffalo Bill
rivers ambitious limits
The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits. Cesar Pelli
rivers quality stories
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told. Caleb Carr
rivers holding-on dear-life
I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck Bryan Lee O'Malley
rivers tree lasts
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money. Chief Seattle
rivers mountain suits
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them. Chief Joseph
rivers flow ashes
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. Chanakya
rivers yellow blue
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. Charles Baudelaire
rivers way path
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Charles Schumer
rivers water way
There is no way that you can know the taste of water unless you drink it or unless it has rained on you or unless you jump in the river. Charles Manson
rivers america stories
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it. Charles Kuralt
rivers lovely strange
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is... Aidan Chambers
rivers bed violent
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. Bertolt Brecht
rivers house sitting
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. Duke of Wellington
rivers water democracy
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. Indira Gandhi
rivers people bureaucracy
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! Jack Kerouac
rivers ducks long
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. Guy Kawasaki
rivers water steps
What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. Pocahontas
rivers body dumped-her
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river. Orson Scott Card
rivers contentment sides
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
rivers used niagara
I used to waterski on the Niagara River. Kim Alexis
rivers escaping heaven
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. Kathleen Battle
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 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).