Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Wallis

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

John Betjeman

Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

Kate Atkinson

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Richard Dawkins

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Rebecca West

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Rick Riordan

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Reinhold Messner

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.

Paullina Simons

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

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.

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

Mary Oliver

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

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

Rachel Carson

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Prince William

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 Philip

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

Robert Frost

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same...

Thomas Davis

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

Thomas Cole

If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.

Roberta Flack

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Richard Rohr

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Virgil

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

William Henry Ashley

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

Warren Buffett

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

Rudolfo Anaya

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

William Christopher Handy

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Vash Young

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.