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The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

My feelings for you run very deep." - Loor Not deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

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

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.

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

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

I'm the grandson of immigrants who came across rivers and oceans to get here, some without documentation.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

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