For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions… — Marc Levine Copy Share Image
“Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch… — Wilma Mankiller 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 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
At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago,… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown 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
“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
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
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they… — Horace Binney Wallace 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
The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the… — Joseph Rodman Drake Copy Share Image
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
