Rivers Quotes

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

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

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

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.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

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

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