...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
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
I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to… — Bobby Orr Copy Share Image
In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of… — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the… — Calvin Johnson Copy Share Image
Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand… — Ovid Copy Share Image
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
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
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal,… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image