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River Quotes

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Politics Man River Dirty Up Who

We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.

Alanis Morissette

Fear Live Culture River America Us

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

Time Travel River Down Create New

Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much.

Great Death River Care Phoenix Like

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

River Flattery Admiration Between

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Great River Road Place Village Ohio

I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again.

River Looking Forward Looking Forward

River City Improv set the stage for my career.

Marc Evan Jackson

River City Career Stage Improv Set

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time Fire I Am River Me Tiger

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

Great Water Ocean River Drop Just

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Memories Childhood I Am River Farm

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.

River Handsome Long Buildings Wall

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

Douglas Brinkley

Joy River Impossible American Pie

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

Adoniram Judson

River Language My Own Become Own

If you have a river, then you should share it with everyone.

River You Everyone Share Should

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

River True Noise Like Merit Deeper

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman

History River Wine Human Take Our

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Happiness Joy River Walking Go Know

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Life Love Path Step River Road

With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.

Taylor Sheridan

Peace River Wind You Tragedy

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love.

Love Tree River People Building You

We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.

River Building Animals Top Going

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

Words River Grow Talking Back Run

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'

William Least Heat-Moon

Life Personality I Am River Spirit

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