You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow,… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
“The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.” — Saleem Sharma Copy Share Image
I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
Nervous and scared is a good thing, it's your friend. You feel more on the edge, you feel like you're about to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of… — Ray Bergman 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
Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty;… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let go, because, they're gone, man. They're gone. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual. — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there. — Gene Brown Copy Share Image
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. — G. E. M. Skues Copy Share Image
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg. — Theodore Gordon Copy Share Image
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever. — Minette Walters Copy Share Image
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. — Horace Copy Share Image
... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image