Quotes about river
rivers rocks landscape
The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms. John Wesley Powell
rivers swim want
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank Nancy Horan
rivers taught depth
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths. Hermann Hesse
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The river is everywhere.
rivers voice water
The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
rivers feet childhood
Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
rivers hands environmental
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.
rivers attention savannah
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. Frederick Reines
rivers memorial political
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers. Franklin D. Roosevelt
rivers people pushing
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in. Jim Wallis
rivers reservoirs
Be a river - not a reservoir. John C. Maxwell
rivers want different
i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know. Louise Erdrich
rivers ice chaos
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.
rivers west sometimes
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Maya Angelou
rivers spirit harmony
A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...
rivers tree today
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
rivers knowing water
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together! Kenneth Grahame
rivers better-person morphing
Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on. Katie Aselton
rivers silence drink
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. Khalil Gibran
rivers borders fish-tanks
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. Norman MacCaig
rivers water hard
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. Norman Maclean
rivers smell lakes
Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too. Oliver Sacks
rivers blood looks
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood. Enoch Powell
rivers water paddling
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
rivers rocks work-out
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. Emile Hirsch
rivers looks hours
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Ralph Waldo Emerson
rivers climate movement
The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny. Terry Tempest Williams
rivers bird ankh
And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface. Terry Pratchett
rivers water ankh
Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
rivers stones frogs
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?
rivers environmental months
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
rivers culture young
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze. Kurt Lewin
rivers events violent
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. Marcus Aurelius