Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing. — Izaak Walton
One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the… — Homer
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… — Mary Oliver
The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a… — David Suzuki
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall,… — Sidney Lanier
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. — Dante Alighieri
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study… — Paul Cezanne
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to… — Anthony de Mello
It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to… — Caryl Parker Haskins
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a… — Paul Goldberger
Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority… — Ehud Olmert
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to… — Steven Pressfield
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. — Chanakya
However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not… — Walter J. Phillips
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the… — Mark Kostabi
No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a… — Lyndon B. Johnson
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. — Francis of Assisi
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles… — Walt Disney
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide. — John Muir
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.… — Rachel Carson

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