Rivers Quotes

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.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

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.

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.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.