Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

Brian Andreas

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Jane Fonda

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Jamie Foxx

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

Charles Bukowski

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Dennis Miller

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Deepak Chopra

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

Edgar Cayce

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

Art Linkletter

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Ashanti

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Ashanti

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

Aleksandar Hemon

I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

Aldo Leopold

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Aldo Leopold

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Aldo Leopold

Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.

Aldo Leopold

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

Aldo Leopold

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

Ali Smith

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.

A. A. Milne

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

A. A. Milne

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Agatha Christie

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Adoniram Judson

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

Annie Dillard

The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there.

Well, the River Mart. You have to have the River Mart.

Alexander Pope

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

Debbie Ford

Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.

Duke of Wellington

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Deepak Chopra

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

Ann Patchett

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

Amanda Lindhout

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

Chuck Klosterman

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Christopher Paolini

Arya.' He looked down the silvery river and then back at Arya, and he gripped the hilt of Brisingr. He was so full of emotion, he trembled. He did not want to leave, but he knew he must. 'Stay with me-' Her gaze darted up. 'I cannot.' '...stay with me until the first curve in the river.' She hesitated, then nodded.