Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

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

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

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.

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.

Willie Nelson

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Jose Saramago

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Joni Mitchell

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Paul McCartney

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Mike Harris

Harper understands, but I think the West does need to understand the East better. And I think that the East needs to understand the West better. I think urban needs to understand rural better and rural needs to understand urban better.

George J. Mitchell

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

Patrick Franklin

What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up to us to stand up to that tyranny.

Prince Nayef

It is a fact ? unfortunately ? that there was (a plan) to target key installations in Eastern Province,

Martin Jacques

When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about.

David Gergen

What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is abnormal. It's an aberration to have a team stay as long as this one has.

Eileen Kleinfelter

I thought we gave Eastern some trouble. I thought we gave them a good game.