Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

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.

Pocahontas

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Orson Scott Card

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Daniel Boone

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

Aldo Leopold

A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.

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.

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Robert Frost

The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same...

Thomas Davis

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

Thomas Cole

If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.

Rajneesh

I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt into existence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity, attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, the Guest comes.

Swami Vivekananda

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

Ron Kind

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Steven Erikson

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Steve Martin

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

Red Buttons

Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner!

Stephen Colbert

We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.

Stephen Colbert

Let freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.

Utah Phillips

Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.

Stephen King

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Stephen Ambrose

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Stephen Ambrose

In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

Rupert Brooke

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

Sun Tzu

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

Robert A. Brady

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Sherman Alexie

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.

Norbert Wiener

Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves

Mitch Albom

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

John Wesley Powell

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.