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.

John Moody

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

Lyndon B. Johnson

An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they have been turned into open sewers by communities and by industries. It makes us all very fearful that all rivers will go this way unless somebody acts now to try to balance our river development.

Louis Bacon

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Malala Yousafzai

We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

James Patterson

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Hermann Hesse

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Hermann Hesse

The river is everywhere.

Stephen King

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Dawn Brown

I can't imagine life without him. He completes our family.

Mike McLaughlin

People have put just about anything you can imagine on top of landfills.

Lauren Willig

Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

Mike Wallace

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Emily Post

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Louis XIV

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

John Green

Imagine others complexly.

John Dykstra

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

Frank Robinson

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Sappho

What cannot be said will be wept.

Richard M. Nixon

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

William Carey

The less said about me the better.

Thomas a Kempis

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Joshua Homme

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I never said I was consistent.

Peabo Bryson

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.