Rivers Quotes - Page 40

• Over the river and through the wood,
  To grandfather's house we go;
  The horse knows the way
  To carry the sleigh,
  Through the white and drifted snow.

  Lydia M. Child

  Horse, Winter, White

  "The New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day". "Flowers for Children". Book by Lydia Maria Child, www.potw.org. 1845.

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• I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Details, Bail

  Abraham Lincoln, Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1908). “The works of Abraham Lincoln ...”

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• If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

  Hal Borland

  Song, Voice, Firsts

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• For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Nature, Real, Animal

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

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• The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.138, Faber & Faber

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• The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Nice, Two

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Wise, Horse, Writing

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

  Sean O'Casey

  Stars, Ignorance, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1956). “Inishfallen, fare thee well. Rose and crown. Sunset and evening star”, MacMillan

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• Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ocean, Twenties, Boat

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• 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

  Travel, Personality, Grandfather

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• Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

  Guy Finley

  Mean, Cells, Years

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.

  Jonathan Raban

  Technology, Track, Railroads

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

  Jonathan Raban

  Real, Sea, Long

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• Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Land

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• When your soul is pricked by compunction and gradually changed, it becomes a fountain flowing with rivers of tears and compunction. ... If any one of you ever happens to communicate with tears, whether you weep before the Liturgy or in the course of the divine Liturgy, or at the very time that you receive the divine Gifts, and does not desire to do this for the rest of his days and nights, it will avail him nothing to have wept merely once. It is not this alone that at once purifies us and makes us worthy; it is daily compunction that does not cease until death.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Night, Soul

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• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Sleep

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• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, America, Vastness

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• [W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Riders

  Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.

  Avril Lavigne

  Friendship, Sea, Two

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• If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Regret, Sadness, Confession

  Song: Black, Album: Solace

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• Under his spurning feet, the road
  Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
  And the landscape sped away behind
  Like an ocean flying before the wind.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Ocean, Wind, Feet

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• My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

  Tim Cahill

  Home, Vacation, Ideas

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• Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

  Philip Johnson

  Believe, Steps, Nihilist

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  Vash Young

  Helpful, Loud, Found

  Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Running, Dry, Feels

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