Quotes About Rivers

Sacramento was the least typical of the Valley towns, and it is—but only because it is bigger and more diverse, only because it has had the rivers and the legislature; its true character remains the Valley character, its virtues the Valley virtues, its sadness the Valley sadness.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

They carry terror with them like a purse, And flinch from the horizon like a gun; And all the rivers and the railways run Away from Neighbourhood as from a curse.

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.

Its perorations verge upon the ceaseless orations of the ocean: For reality's glow and glory, without poetry, Fade, like the red operas of sunset, The blue rivers and windows of morning.

The flowers glowed in their many colors. Lakes and rivers shimmered emerald in the sunlight, and Jay's heart pounded with joy.

May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys. The Rio Negro had given him Daniela. One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least.

One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon.

(As for) these-- their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and excellent is the reward of the laborers.

May the Irish hills caress you, may her lakes and rivers bless you, may the luck of the Irish enfold you, may the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you."

earth from these fields washed into the rivers and down into the Caribbean, where it settled on fragile coral reefs and destroyed them.

The fact that this medieval France was almost entirely surrounded by rivers – for a little stream, la Thève, forms its northern boundary – probably gave rise to the expression, Île de France.

I have been Presumptuous against love, against the sky, Against all elements, against the tie Of mortals each to each, against the blooms Of flowers, rush of rivers, and the tombs Of heroes gone.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

north of the River Rhine and the River Danube, and west of the River Vistula.

To easterners, "conservation" of water usually means protecting rivers from development; in the West, it means building dams.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land--in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Homesteads fronting on streams went like oranges aboard a scurvy-ridden ship.

Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain but make no progress.

But the sources of great events are like those of rivers; in vain do we explore the earth's surface, we can never find them.