I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source. — Clarence H. Burns Copy Share Image
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma'… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce… — John Brough Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Hide the miles between us Run to me Like you run your Fingers through my hair Desire in every digit, in every… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us. — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
