Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru Nanak
OceanWomanManRiverLawShe
They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.
John Anderson
FutureHealthRiverTellSystemUs
You cannot step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus
StepRiverBrainyYouSameTwice
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
Max Muller
LifeChangeRiverLandscapeBank
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
Gordon Sinclair
MoneyMenYellowRiverHelpLong
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
NatureRiverOwnLimitationsEven
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.
Frederick Reines
RiverAttentionFirstStudySoon
I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'
Michael Arden
RiverEnoughLuckyBigBroadway
There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.
Eric Burdon
LifeRiverRunNothingMoreDry
The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.
Steven Van Zandt
RiverMeSongsMeant
A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.
David Means
CarMomentPastMountainRiverBorn
There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.
Tommy Lee Jones
RiverPeopleLookingDestinyCountry
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly
ArtMomentDayRiverPicnicArtist
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.
Robert Brady
RiverHandleMillionSpeakerCargo
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
Buffalo Bill
RiverHillStreamSafeLastSmoky
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
Ron Kind
RiverSeriousRepairOldNeedOver
The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
Bill Buford
RainSkyAnimalRiverBirdsPlant
I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.
Rosemary Mahoney
SeaRiverIndiaEdgeNewPlaces
A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.
Alan Stern
ScienceRiverIndependentNextCall
Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams
HeartTimeGriefRiverMovingYou
How to get over the river was the bother. At last, after thinking a heap about it, I came to the conclusion that I always did: that the boldest plan is the best and safest.
Wild Bill Hickok
BestRiverThinkingPlanOverGet
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.
Michael Koryta
WorkLearningRiverBookColdThink
A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.
Sandra Tsing Loh
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Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.
Jay Weatherill
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