Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Rudd

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

Kenneth Grahame

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

Katie Aselton

Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

James Patterson

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Emile Hirsch

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

Hermann Hesse

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Hermann Hesse

The river is everywhere.

Hermann Hesse

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Heraclitus

All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river

Heraclitus

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.

Heraclitus

You can never step in the same river twice.

Heraclitus

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

Heraclitus

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.

Heraclitus

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.

Heraclitus

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.

Heraclitus

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Henry James

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Khalil Gibran

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Norman Maclean

A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.

Oliver Sacks

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 Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

Merle Shain

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.

Michael Chabon

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.

Ted Nugent

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

John C. Maxwell

Be a river - not a reservoir.

Louise Erdrich

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

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Sherman Alexie

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.

Neil Gaiman

The only water in the forest is the River.

John Wesley Powell

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.