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.

Rachel Carson

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Prince William

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Prince Philip

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

Terry Pratchett

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Terry Pratchett

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

Terry Pratchett

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Ronald Reagan

Trees cause pollution.

Sri Chinmoy

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

Steven Wright

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me -- and I didn't hear it.

Victor Hugo

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

Stephen King

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

Stephen King

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bianca Jagger

Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Arrigo Sacchi

The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.

Bill Vaughan

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

Toni Jennings

Where we are today is about where we were two weeks after Andrew,

Jay-Z

May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrow's

Jay Leno

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.