While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough… — Roderick Haig-Brown 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
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows.… — Matthew Fontaine Maury Copy Share Image
When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind.… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately… — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves. — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The stream of passing years is like a river with people being carried along in the current. Some are swept along, protesting,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
