Quotes about river
river top worried
We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.
rivers bird black
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. Rebecca West
rivers water abundance
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. William Whipple
rivers appreciate water
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? Sarah Ban Breathnach
rivers water dip
Dip him in the river who loves water. William Blake
rivers mourning tongue
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. W. H. Auden
rivers growing language
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. Robert MacNeil
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. Norman MacCaig
river
They look like river ships, but scaled up.
river
It was just too much River and not enough Kelso tonight.
rivers san-francisco guy
I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me. Mike Rowe
rivers used niagara
I used to waterski on the Niagara River. Kim Alexis
rivers escaping heaven
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom. Kathleen Battle
rivers egotism
Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Patti Smith
rivers flow fleeting
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new. Ovid
rivers splits force
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.
rivers environmental progress
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. Paul Newman
rivers path needs
To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river. Matthew Fox
rivers source knows
A river reaches places its source never knows. Oswald Chambers
rivers water joy
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
rivers mind entertainment
The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds. Ken Auletta
rivers dying knees
Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst. Kathy Mattea
rivers water mexico
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. Mark Twain
rivers steps greek-philosophy
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Mary Renault
rivers lakes water
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. Muhammad Ali
rivers knowing waiting
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other. Patrick Ness
rivers water dry
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. Parris Glendening
rivers tears oscars
You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart. Paris Hilton
rivers heaven chinese
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. Lafcadio Hearn
rivers puddles
A river without banks is a large puddle. Ken Blanchard
rivers feet stories
You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it. Margaret Atwood
rivers nerves needs
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.
rivers dams
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.