Rivers Quotes

[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least.

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers / To hear the rain fall on dry leaves / And chat a bit with death across foggy nights.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

A river without banks is a large puddle.

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

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.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

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

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

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.

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.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

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.

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.

Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.