Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise;… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Hide the miles between us Run to me Like you run your Fingers through my hair Desire in every digit, in every… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around,… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea,… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father."… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because… — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly,… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast…a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic…So get out there and hunt and fish and mess… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
So we have a tremendous amount of water where the two greatest rivers in North America meet. And then all of the… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image