Quotes about rivers
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 water people
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river. John Fogerty
rivers water steps
You can step in the same river but the water will always be new. Kate Atkinson
rivers rowing virtue
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.
rivers decay world
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away. Percy Bysshe Shelley
rivers soul dawn
Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life. Paullina Simons
rivers mountain way
You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.
rivers dams
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
rivers imagination live-your-life
So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. Mary Oliver
rivers imagine said
Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.
rivers environmental causes
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished. Rachel Carson
rivers water world
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change. Prince William
rivers people classic
Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers. Prince Philip
rivers soul religion
This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously. Nathaniel Hawthorne
rivers firsts clean
It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted. Elizabeth Gilbert
rivers water people
People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are. Leo Tolstoy
rivers yesterday gone
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Larry McMurtry
rivers tears taj-mahal
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. Rabindranath Tagore
rivers healthy environmental
If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future. John Kitzhaber
rivers race darkness
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth. Joseph Conrad
rivers soul veins
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes
rivers solitude foxgloves
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell. John Keats
rivers speech broke
Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. Judy Gold
rivers swim want
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank Nancy Horan
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 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 steps greek-philosophy
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Mary Renault