There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way... until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy… — Chris Frantz Copy Share Image
Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
Kunlun Mountain Over the earth the greenblue monster Kunlun who has seen all spring color and passion of men. Three million dragons… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken'… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
And meteorologists have nothing to tell people in Philo, who know perfectly well that the real story is that to the west,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
