Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Kawasaki

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Indira Gandhi

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Jack Kerouac

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river

Jay Inslee

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.

Candice S. Miller

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.

Etel Adnan

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

Ernest Cline

A river of words flowed between us.

Hans Blix

there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things...

Henry David Thoreau

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Jeremy Collier

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.

Gretel Ehrlich

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

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.

Gregory Corso

Spirit is Life. It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea.

Gregory David Roberts

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.

Ian Somerhalder

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

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.

Jacques Barzun

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Jacques Barzun

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

Izaak Walton

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

I fished a lot with him when he was young, and I kind of turned him on to the spot where we fished there on the river then.

Gloria Steinem

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.

Harry Reid

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.

J. K. Rowling

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.

H. L. Mencken

[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.

George Herbert

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

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.