You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people… We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer. — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen. — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series. — Lee Wulff Copy Share Image
There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though… — Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney Copy Share Image
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around,… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea,… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire,… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink. — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. — William Whipple Copy Share Image
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore. — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
![“[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an…” quote by Jim Sturgess](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/315/jim-sturgess-15511_attitude_on-river-phoenix-i-would-love-to-see-wha_1835907.jpg)
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