Quotes About River

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

Let us cross over the river," he said quietly, "and rest under the shade of the trees.

Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.

These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

A maidenhead, the virgin's trouble Is well-compare-d to a bubble on a navigable river Soon 'tis touched t'is gone forever

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

As a fellow member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, Washington had known Jefferson since 1768, and, at age nineteen, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware River with Washington on that already legendary Christmas night in 1776 for the battles that revived the patriot cause.

Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks….But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?

Naturally, peace is such a sweet river that carries respect, with its one bank and at another bank, justice; indeed, balance and care become its bridge, which cultivates love in each society of the world.

Time is only the river of memory.

Imagine that the lines an actress reads are a river that runs calmly along the surface of the earth. Then imagine that the actress are the earth, and that under the earth is another river, a wilder one whose current leaps in the opposite direction, whose roar is muted. Every time the actress speaks her lines, she must offer a glimpse of the river that runs beneath: the mysterious churn of her consciousness, the lawlessness of a person's doubts or desires.

Ralph and I returned the movie, Peter's Friends. I had never seen Ralph hate a movie so much that he had to go out in the middle of the night to return it. We kept walking toward the river.

For a moment it felt like we weren't in the Danube at all but in the river of time, and everyone was at a different point, though in another sense we were all here at once.

Get in," he told Nitish. "What, me?" "No," said Farhad, "one of the other twenty-six white tigers waiting to cross the river.

Det er som om selve ankeret mitt ligger begravet i kulpene der ute – og det holder meg fast. Det er som om selve styrken, skaperkraften, hjertet mitt og brillene jeg ser ut på verden med har sitt utspring i elvas dyp.

African Queen' is pretty darn great.

All quiet along the Potomac.

But when melody wells up in thrushes' throats, and bees buzz honeysong, and rock and river clap like hands in summer sun, then misery's drowned in minstrelsy, and Godric's glad in spite of all. Yet sometimes too he's sad in spite of all, God knows, for there are other voices than the poor's.

In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.

For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect.

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.