Quotes about river
rivers neighbour
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. George Herbert
rivers parent doe
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next. Christopher Buckley
rivers creeks revenue
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. Jim Fowler
rivers environmental knows
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. George William Curtis
rivers differences mountain
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. Jefferson Davis
rivers mind suffering
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier
rivers water soul
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. Gretel Ehrlich
rivers dangerous careless
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.
rivers sea flow
Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea. Gregory Corso
rivers promise stories
Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog? You know, the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river, because the scorpion promises not to sting him. And then the scorpion stings the frog, half way across the river. The drowning frog asks him why he did it, when they'll both drown, and the scorpion says that he's a scorpion, and it's his nature to sting. Gregory David Roberts
rivers differences tree
We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. Ian Somerhalder
rivers tree environment
The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.
rivers rowing nothing-new
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. Fanny Kemble
rivers flow sacred
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) Euripides
rivers light fame
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
rivers
In a life properly lived, you’re a river, Jim Harrison
rivers hands sailing
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.. Jerome K. Jerome
rivers doubt boards
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
river smoke stack
This smoke stack is going to be in the river soon, if we don't do something.
rivers contentment sides
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
rivers water steps
What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing. Pocahontas
rivers body dumped-her
He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river. Orson Scott Card
rivers feet average
Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
rivers stories stopping
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. Ray Bradbury
rivers world helping
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. Sherman Alexie
rivers gossip water
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways. Michael Korda
rivers water grace
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river! Mark Twain
rivers denial egyptian
Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.
rivers laughing life-is-like
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do. Merle Shain
rivers world goats
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life. Michael Chabon
rivers america immigration
Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. Ted Nugent
rivers botox stories
Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story Norman Chad
rivers water may
We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message. Norbert Wiener