Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Horan

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

Ray Bradbury

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

Enoch Powell

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

Henry David Thoreau

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Henry David Thoreau

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Frederick Reines

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

Paulo Coelho

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Max Muller

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Maya Angelou

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Maya Angelou

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...

Maya Angelou

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

Norman Chad

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

Norbert Wiener

We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

Norbert Wiener

Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves

Mitch Albom

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

John O'Donohue

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

John O'Donohue

May my life flow like a river, ever surprised by its own unfolding.

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

John Fogerty

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Larry McMurtry

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

John Kitzhaber

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

Joseph Conrad

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.

Langston Hughes

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

John Keats

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

Louis Bacon

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Malala Yousafzai

We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

Judy Gold

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.