Quotes about rivers
rivers splits force
The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams. Ovid
rivers environmental progress
While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all. Paul Newman
rivers people bureaucracy
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! Jack Kerouac
rivers bridges crosses
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
rivers water democracy
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. Indira Gandhi
rivers ducks long
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth. Guy Kawasaki
rivers bees found
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. George Herbert
rivers soul receptive
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. George Eliot
rivers long waiting
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. Sun Tzu
rivers cargo delaware
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly. Robert A. Brady
rivers flux all-things
All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river Heraclitus
rivers water flow
Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
rivers steps
You can never step in the same river twice.
rivers feet water
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
rivers progress steps
Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.
rivers water flow
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.
rivers substance steps
No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.
rivers water flow
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.
rivers blue fiction
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth. Henry James
rivers dinner said
Joan Rivers, who said to Marcel Marceau, Can we talk? Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
rivers steps greek-philosophy
Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. Mary Renault
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
rivers
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