Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Robert MacNeil

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

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.

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.

Tom Waits

Misery is the River of the World

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.

James Patterson

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

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.

Rick Riordan

It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

Reinhold Messner

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

Wilbur Smith

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Zhuangzi

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Virgil

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

William Henry Ashley

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

Warren Buffett

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

William Blake

Dip him in the river who loves water.

William Stafford

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

William Stafford

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

William Least Heat-Moon

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.

William Whipple

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.

Will Eisner

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Rudolfo Anaya

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

W. H. Auden

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

William Christopher Handy

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Vash Young

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. Life--evolution--the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy--existence itself--is essentially change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.