Quotes about river
rivers air water
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute. Gloria Steinem
rivers water flow
They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same. Harry Reid
rivers landscape green
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. J. K. Rowling
rivers texas water
[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least. H. L. Mencken
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 water feelings
In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears. Nhat Hanh
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 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 water mexico
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river. Mark Twain
rivers bird tree
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee
rivers lakes people
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. Candice S. Miller
rivers dying way
Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying. Etel Adnan
rivers people care
there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things... Hans Blix
rivers environmental way
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. Henry David Thoreau
rivers lakes east
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.
rivers america navy
While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
rivers steps
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Jacques Barzun
rivers water history
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
rivers water world
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien
rivers four six
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Izaak Walton
rivers trying next
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers. Isaac Mizrahi
rivers drawing decision
A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted. Herbert Simon
rivers feminist feminism
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the rivers of deserved obscurity for third-rate neurotics. Florence King
rivers movement bed
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. Henri Bergson
rivers goes-on
The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn’t about me. Jackie Kennedy
rivers feet choices
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience. George Eliot
rivers waiting feelings
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
rivers flow dip
Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it Gary Paulsen