This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the… — Lynn Culbreath Noel Copy Share Image
Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to… — Amy Gerstler Copy Share Image
Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier… — Don Herold Copy Share Image
I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The trout that seem to stick in my memory the finest aren't the big ones, and maybe it's because I have't visited… — William G. Tapply Copy Share Image
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us. — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay… — A. G. Mohan Copy Share Image
Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image