Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Pocahontas

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Orson Scott Card

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Daniel Boone

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Aldo Leopold

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

Anthony de Mello

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

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.

Raymond Sokolov

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

Bob Bradley

A sea of humanity. What a wonderful sight to see at the start.

Eric Hornbeck

As long as I can feel like I'm doing good, I'm going to be here. It could be tomorrow, it could be a month, I don't have those answers. However, if we can keep the search going, I will stay.

Dave Molina

Colfax will be the big one. We can make our season with a win.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

Bill Hybels

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Jane Austen

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to acertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.

Delta Burke

If you want to say it with flowers, remember that a single rose screams in your face: 'I'm cheap!'

Edward Ruscha

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

White Eagle

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

Mark Stout

We've got a good flow of resumes, and we want that to continue. We want to get good folks interested in working for Nissan to put their resumes online.

Kodi Waite

We did a great job getting shots up. It seemed to flow for us right away.

Paul McNulty

We all know that Washington is a town in which the flow of important information is virtually nonstop,