Quotes about rivers
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
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