Rivers Quotes
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
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.
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.
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
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.
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.
The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.
When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say / It is well, it is well, with my soul.
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.
We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
