Quotes and Sayings about Rivers
"The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care."
- William Alexander
(Related: Care, Rivers)
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Names, Rivers, Water)
"Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation."
- Stephen Ambrose
(Related: Recreation, Rivers, Wildlife)
"We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Jeopardy, Light, May, Project, Rivers, Will)
"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience."
- Richard Dean Anderson
(Related: Experience, Travel, Purpose, Past, Rivers, Running)
"One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: American)
"Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race."
- Michael Andretti
(Related: Race, Running)
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Men, Mountains, Ocean, Rivers, Sea, Stars, Wonder)
"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
- Bruce Babbitt
(Related: Life, Act, Rivers)
"When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track."
- Buck Baker
(Related: Car, Money, Worry)
"Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years."
- Travis Barker
(Related: School, Years)
"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Religion, Age, Gender)
"Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Country)
"He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together."
- John Brough
(Related: Science, Commerce, Man, Nations, Rivers, World)
"I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers."
- David Cameron
(Related: People)
"The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi."
- George Catlin
(Related: Character, Appearance, Rivers, Terror, World)
"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Blood, Europe, Forget, Nations, Rivers, Years)
"There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Education, People, Opportunity, Freedom, Help, Information, Poverty, Today, Want)
"In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Quality, Day, Earth, Improvement, Legislation, Nation, Rivers, Support, Water)
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Land, Loyalty, Man, Mountains, Rivers)
"Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit."
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
(Related: Love, Laws, Rivers)
"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Computers, Mountains, Oceans, Rivers, Television)
"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
- John Dryden
(Related: Brooks, Habits, Rivers)
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: Temple, Ceremony, Mountains, Rivers, Talking)
"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
- Henry Van Dyke
(Related: Rivers)
"I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music."
- Kevin Eubanks
(Related: Experience, Music, People, Play, Rivers, School, Schools)
"My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong."
- A. J. Foyt
(Related: Dad, People, Successful, Luck, Race, Running, Saying, Wrong)
"Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Rivers, Sea)
"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."
- Parris Glendening
(Related: Depression, Rivers, State, Water)
"After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Thought, Hate, Mothers)
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
- Arthur Golden
(Related: Rivers)
"I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me."
- Jeff Gordon
(Related: Force, Past, Want)
"Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Home, First, Marathon, Years)
"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
- Heraclitus
(Related: Rivers)
"People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: Work, People, Empathy, Key, Writing)
"The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching."
- Damon Hill
(Related: People, Being, Children, Living, Today)
"I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari."
- Jacky Ickx
"But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension."
- Jacky Ickx
(Related: Present, Tension)
"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."
- Johnny Isakson
(Related: Job, Road)
"First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Government, People, Country, First, Laws, National security)
"The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit."
- John Joly
(Related: Past, Rivers)
"You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Man, Rivers)
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."
- Nikita Khrushchev
(Related: Politicians, Promise, Rivers)
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Travel, People, Birds, Existence, Fish, Mountains, Rivers, Stars, World)
"Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: People, Driving, Hate)
"We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end."
- Lane Kirkland
(Related: End)
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
- Rem Koolhaas
(Related: Architecture, Beginning)
"It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team."
- David Leslie
(Related: Work, Hard work, Will)
"Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source."
- Willy Ley
(Related: Ideas, Rivers)
"I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Related: Beauty, Life, Light, Richness, Rivers)
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
- John Lubbock
(Related: Books, Earth, Rivers, Sea, Sky)
"In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers."
- Charles Lyell
(Related: Rivers)
"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."
- Norman MacCaig
(Related: Fish, Rivers)
"My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records."
- Chuck Mangione
(Related: Brother, Brothers, Jazz, Play, School)
"The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: Time, Thought, Practice, Race, Weekend)
"I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: World)
"Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with."
- Nigel Mansell
(Related: Fitness, People, First, Play, Race, Racing, Will)
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Soul, Clouds, Existence, Flowers, Man, Rivers, Stars)
"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Animals, Land, Rivers, Trees)
"We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Energy, Fight, Recreation, Rivers, Will)
"Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Being, Light, Now, Police, Washington)
"Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state."
- Ruth Ann Minner
(Related: Financial, Key, State)
"I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Rivers, Trying)
"Well, it seems all the fish in the rivers are dying. Could this be an act of cod?"
- Colin Mochrie
(Related: Act, Dying, Fish, Rivers)
"In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point."
- Edwin Newman
(Related: America, Rivers, Will)
"The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone."
- Paul O'Grady
(Related: Men, Women, People, Baseball)
"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
(Related: Road)
"China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years."
- Li Peng
(Related: Mountains, Rivers, Years)
"I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Police, states)
"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."
- Jerry Pournelle
(Related: Now, Research)
"In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight."
- Bobby Rahal
(Related: Age, Money, Competition, Crowds)
"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."
- Feisal Abdul Rauf
(Related: America, Americans, Being, Doctors, Investment, Lawyers, Today)
"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe."
- Usher Raymond
"Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes."
- Dave Reichert
(Related: Beauty, Congress, Country, Nation, Obligation, Rivers)
"Scissors, screwdrivers and the like pose an unacceptable risk to flight crews as well passengers."
- Dave Reichert
(Related: Risk)
"We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form."
- Sally Ride
(Related: Cities, Day, Night, Ocean, Rivers)
"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: God, Bed, Country, Living, Open, Sky, Television)
"If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: God)
"Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Food, Favorite)
"It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Sex)
"It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Sex)
"My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Control, Birth control, Now)
"My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Dumb)
"My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Audiences, Therapy, Unhappiness)
"Never floss with a stranger."
- Joan Rivers
"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Oil)
"There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl."
- Joan Rivers
"She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: War, Thought, World, World war)
"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Time, First)
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: God, History, Mystery, Present, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Work, God)
"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Beauty)
"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Money, Happiness, People, Key)
"Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Dress, England, Needs, Queen)
"I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery."
- Joan Rivers
"Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: History)
"Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Love, Husband, Pain)
"Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Clothes)
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Advice, Mind, Spirit)
"Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Daughter, Kids, Now, Respect, Sleep, Years)
"Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory."
- Joan Rivers
"Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Will)
"I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: God)
"I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Beds, Hate, Months)
"I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them."
- Joan Rivers
"I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: People)
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Baby)
"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Saying, Thinking)
"I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Life, Sex, Mother, HusbBeds, Blame, Man, Poor, Woman, Years)
"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Man, Mistakes, Questions, Sleep, Woman)
"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Mother, Hell, Property)
"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: People, Fact, Smoking)
"In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First, Now)
"In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster."
- Johnny Rivers
"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Ideas)
"My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First, Guitar)
"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First)
"One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Will)
"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: First)
"The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Internet)
"When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Work, Artists)
"I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it."
- Johnny Rivers
"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: People, Disaster)
"The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Time, First)
"I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Time, Work, Months)
"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Night)
"I think my favorite album was probably Realization."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Favorite)
"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Soul)
"I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Jobs)
"I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it."
- Johnny Rivers
"I got to see all these incredible blues players, like Jimmy Reed."
- Johnny Rivers
"Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Music, Time, Songs, Talking, Writing)
"But I always loved songs with great lyrics."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Songs)
"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Building, Company, Publishing)
"After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Success, Chance)
"About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Money, Months)
"I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis."
- Johnny Rivers
"I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive."
- Larry Rivers
(Related: Art)
"I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist."
- Larry Rivers
(Related: Idea, Artist, Being)
"I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black."
- Larry Rivers
(Related: People, Months, Saying)
"Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive."
- Larry Rivers
(Related: Art)
"It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here."
- Melissa Rivers
(Related: Love, Country, Dogs)
"The Emmys are flat-out fun."
- Melissa Rivers
(Related: Fun)
"The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys."
- Melissa Rivers
(Related: Dogs, Fact)
"My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Goals, Injury)
"What was the name of that dog on 'Rin Tin Tin'?"
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Name)
"We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Mistakes, Right)
"These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Old)
"Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding."
- Mickey Rivers
"Me and George and Billy are two of a kind."
- Mickey Rivers
"It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Today, Walking)
"I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan."
- Mickey Rivers
"I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Control, Sense)
"He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Ugly)
"He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: Ugly)
"He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan."
- Mickey Rivers
"The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor."
- Mickey Rivers
(Related: First, Wind)
"I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record."
- Sam Rivers
(Related: Play)
"The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something."
- Sam Rivers
(Related: People, Musicians)
"Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family."
- Sam Rivers
(Related: Family, Mother, Father, Musicians)
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Related: Rivers, Sea, Self)
"Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no."
- George Ryan
(Related: People, Selling, Hell)
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
- Jose Saramago
(Related: Literary, Rivers, Sea, Space)
"All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river."
- Simone Schwarz-Bart
(Related: Life, Man, Ocean, Rivers, Sea, Sun)
"All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full."
- King Solomon
(Related: Rivers, Sea)
"The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools."
- Billy Sunday
(Related: Bible, America, Banks, Blood, Rivers, Schools, Will)
"I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car."
- John Surtees
(Related: Car, Being)
"As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community."
- Lee Tergesen
(Related: Love, Women, Community, Gay, Popular)
"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
- Tina Turner
(Related: Mother, Church, American, Rivers, Spiritual)
"Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: People, Books, Mountains, Plants, Rivers, Study, Trees, Water)
"I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot."
- Al Unser
(Related: Time)
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Time, First, Present, Rivers, Water)
"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."
- Voltaire
(Related: Progress, Error, Man, Ocean, Rivers)
"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld."
- Henry Williamson
(Related: Father, Thought, Birds, Childhood, Eyes, Flowers, Friends, Old, Rivers, Spirit, Trees)