Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

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

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.

Heraclitus

Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

Heraclitus

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Heraclitus

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Henry James

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

John Kitzhaber

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

David Brooks

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

Janis Joplin

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Amy Grant

Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.

Andy Rooney

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Matthew McConaughey

Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

Howard Zinn

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

Ellen DeGeneres

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Tatyana Tolstaya

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Leonard Cohen

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Mason Cooley

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Jay Wright

I don't think we understand how hard people are going to come at us. These guys have never gone through a season like this, ranked early, getting so much attention. Everyone else wants to make their name off you. You can't imagine how hard people come at you.

Elle King

My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah, my first name is Tanner. And King is my mom's last name. I took my mom's last name since I was 18.

Rich Lyons

Nelson played harder than we did. We've been playing this way for the past two or three weeks, we've practiced this way and played this way, and if we don't snap out of it we'll be one and gone next Tuesday.

Joe Paterno

One play here, one play there and it could have gone the other way. But we got it, and I'll take it.

Thomas Hood

One more Unfortunate, / Weary of breath, / Rashly importunate, / Gone to her death. Take her up tenderly, / Lift her with care; / Fashioned so slenderly, / Young, and so fair!

Alexis Kendrick

One more inch, less than an inch, and it would've gone in.