Quotes about rivers
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. Norman MacCaig
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 rocks work-out
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. Emile Hirsch
rivers feet childhood
Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
rivers hands environmental
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
rivers flux all-things
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river Heraclitus
rivers water flow
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
rivers steps
You can never step in the same river twice.
rivers feet water
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
rivers progress steps
Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
rivers water flow
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
rivers substance steps
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
rivers water flow
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
rivers blue fiction
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. Henry James
rivers contentment sides
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
rivers broken guy
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe
rivers people care
there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things... Hans Blix
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 feminist feminism
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics. Florence King
rivers movement bed
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. Henri Bergson
rivers soul receptive
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. George Eliot
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