Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Daniel Boone

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

E. B. White

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Anthony de Mello

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

Anthony Horowitz

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

Amy Schumer

I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.

Anthony Bourdain

I did go into the Amazonian region of Brazil. They have prehistoric river fish that weigh in at around 600 pounds, which you don't see anywhere else. And foods that cannot be exported or even found in other parts of Brazil.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Aristotle

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Deepak Chopra

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Chris Farley

I live in a van, down by the river!

Chris Farley

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

We won't be out of Valley River altogether.

Deng Xiaoping

Cross the river by feeling for stones.

They look like river ships, but scaled up.

It was just too much River and not enough Kelso tonight.

Jeff Cohen

That river has a long way to go before we're out of this.

Dante Alighieri

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

Cyril Connolly

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

Danielle Steel

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Danielle Steel

Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

Colin Mochrie

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

Ram Dass

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

Hunter S. Thompson

We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river

William Shakespeare

What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

Ernest Cline

A river of words flowed between us.

Mike Rowe

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.

Kim Alexis

I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

Kathleen Battle

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.

Muhammad Ali

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.