Rivers Quotes

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.