Quotes about rivers
rivers landscape green
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. J. K. Rowling
rivers texas water
[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. H. L. Mencken
rivers bees found
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. George Herbert
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 knowing waiting
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other. Patrick Ness
rivers water dry
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. Parris Glendening
rivers tears oscars
You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart. Paris Hilton
rivers lakes water
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. Muhammad Ali
rivers water feelings
In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears. Nhat Hanh
rivers cuss-words taught
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done. John Grisham
rivers puddles
A river without banks is a large puddle. Ken Blanchard
rivers feet stories
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it. Margaret Atwood
rivers nerves needs
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.
rivers heaven chinese
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. Lafcadio Hearn
rivers water mexico
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. Mark Twain
rivers steps greek-philosophy
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Mary Renault
rivers egotism
Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Patti Smith
rivers flow fleeting
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new. Ovid
rivers splits force
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.
rivers environmental progress
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. Paul Newman
rivers path needs
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. Matthew Fox
rivers source knows
A river reaches places its source never knows. Oswald Chambers
rivers water joy
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
rivers gossip water
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways. Michael Korda
rivers water grace
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!
rivers denial egyptian
Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.
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 village east
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. Jose Saramago
rivers wish skates
I wish I had a river I could skate away on? Joni Mitchell