Quotes about rivers
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).
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
rivers air water
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
rivers stories stones
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. Mitch Albom
rivers water forests
The only water in the forest is the River. Neil Gaiman
rivers knowing waiting
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other. Patrick Ness
rivers water dry
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. Parris Glendening
rivers tears oscars
You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart. Paris Hilton
rivers heaven chinese
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. Lafcadio Hearn
rivers cuss-words taught
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done. John Grisham
rivers egotism
Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Patti Smith
rivers flow fleeting
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new. Ovid