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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.
There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.
A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
My son's an idiot. His teacher asked him to spell Mississippi. He asked which one? The river or the state?
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
It is not raining to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.
I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry?
Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?
Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.
Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.
There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.
A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
I might be out of the league if I didn't have a guy like K.G. to show me the ropes and a coach like Doc Rivers.
A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.