Rivers Quotes - Page 22

• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
  Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
  And every Bulrush on the river bank
  A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.

  Oliver Herford

  Cat, Angel, Thinking

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• Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Sweet, Lying, Book

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• Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

  Dave Reichert

  Beauty, Country, Landscape

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• Years from now, years and years, one of those ships will bring me back, me and my nine Brazilian brats. Because yes, they must see this, these lights, the river -- I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

  Holly Golightly

  New York, Light, Years

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• Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the river I could see the twinkling lights of the town. In a week I would be returning to school, and as always I would be running up the goat path and crossing the bridge to go to church. Sometime in the future I would have to build my own dream out of those things that were so much a part of my childhood.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Running, Dream, Stars

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• I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

  Frantz Fanon

  Humility, Giving, Soul

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.90, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

  Meister Eckhart

  Dams

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• The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

  George Vancouver

  Ocean, Fall, Sea

  George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210

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• The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left.

  Calvin Johnson

  Summer, People, Water

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• There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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• The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

  John Masefield

  Heart, London, Docks

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• Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

  Alison McGhee

  Ocean, Water, Amazon

  Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.27, Candlewick Press

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• At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

  Norman Maclean

  Book, Stories, Knows

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

  Norman Borlaug

  Lakes, Luxury, Mountain

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

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• As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.

  John-David F. Bartoe

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

  E. B. White

  Long, Mountain, Six

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• I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.

  River Phoenix

  Kids, Names, People

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• The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

  A. Best

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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• A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

  Brian Murphy

  Happy Life, Lakes, Sea

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• Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

  Charles W. Waterman

  Jobs, Simple, Lakes

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• In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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