Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers.… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by… — Mikhail Lomonosov Copy Share Image
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding… — Lynn Culbreath Noel Copy Share Image
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed.… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think Joan Rivers is such an untapped legend that people just don't appreciate, because they grew up with her on QVC,… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have… — Saraha Copy Share Image
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
