Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

Stephen Colbert

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

Stephen Colbert

Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

Rabindranath Tagore

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

Kurt Lewin

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

Utah Phillips

Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.

Stephen King

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Stephen Ambrose

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Stephen Ambrose

In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

Marcus Aurelius

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Swami Vivekananda

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

Red Buttons

Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner!

Rupert Brooke

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

Rumi

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Tom Waits

Misery is the River of the World

Steven Erikson

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Steve Martin

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

Sun Tzu

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

Robert A. Brady

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

Terry Tempest Williams

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

Terry Pratchett

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Terry Pratchett

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

Terry Pratchett

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Ron Kind

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

Rush Limbaugh

Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too.

Rajneesh

I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt into existence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity, attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, the Guest comes.

Rob Brown

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

Robert MacNeil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

William Stafford

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.