Quotes about rivers
rivers water dip
Dip him in the river who loves water. William Blake
rivers soul ultima
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. Rudolfo Anaya
rivers looks hours
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Ralph Waldo Emerson
rivers climate movement
The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. Terry Tempest Williams
rivers bird ankh
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
rivers water ankh
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.
rivers stones frogs
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?
rivers environmental months
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
rivers culture young
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. Kurt Lewin
rivers events violent
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. Marcus Aurelius
rivers growing language
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. Robert MacNeil
rivers velocity resistance
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. Swami Vivekananda
rivers long soldier
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
rivers world misery
Misery is the River of the World
rivers relax leafs
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. Steven Erikson
rivers tea cups
Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river. Steve Martin
rivers dinner said
Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
rivers flow truth-is
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. Robert Frost
rivers
Only the river is free, always changing but always the same...
rivers people important
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 Davis
rivers environmental world
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. Thomas Cole
rivers space water
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. Rupert Brooke
rivers knowing wind
And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river. Rumi
rivers path resistance
Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm. Utah Phillips
rivers long waiting
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. Sun Tzu
rivers cargo delaware
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. Robert A. Brady
rivers promise needs
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. Rick Riordan
rivers mountain body
...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. Reinhold Messner
rivers people healthy
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. Ron Kind
rivers drug-use answers
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. Rush Limbaugh
rivers mourning tongue
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. W. H. Auden
rivers tennessee boat
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. William Christopher Handy
rivers helpful loud
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. Vash Young