Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chief Seattle

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

David Hockney

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

David Brooks

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

Arthur Rimbaud

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

Bertolt Brecht

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Alan Lee

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

Chanakya

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

Charles Baudelaire

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Charles Schumer

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Joni Mitchell

Van Gogh was impulsive.

James McBride

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.