Rivers Quotes
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to fall down the river, it's a good thing for me. I like that feeling.
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.
They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.
The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.
It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.
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.
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.
The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.
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.
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.
When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?"
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'
Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.
Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
I told a lie the other day. I said that I'd caught a 'bunch' of trout. What I should have said is that I caught a little trout that I named Bunch. There, I?ve confessed and now I feel much better.
Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.
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.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period
In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.