238 River Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. Clive Anderson

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. Cory Lidle

Beautiful You Seen East Never River Up Manhattan Right Flown

In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk. Daniel Boulud

Long Fall Bass Summer Way Striped Long Island Maryland Never River Had Come Until Mostly Island Sound Came Springtime Hudson Off Up Crab America Tip Which Early Gather

Before you even consider making a value bet, try to determine if the bet will have any value at all. Attempt to put your opponent on a hand that he'd likely call a bet with on the river. To do this, you'll have to mentally play back the details of the hand. Think about your opponent's playing tendencies. Daniel Negreanu

You Try Will Value Before Think Consider Back Details Bet About Determine Mentally Tendencies Attempt River He Put Likely Call Making Opponent Hand Any Your Even Play Playing

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes. David Byrne

Day Every Day Ride Path Every Similar River Almost Almost Every Day New Protected Fairly Safer Opposed Hudson York Getting New York Bike Riding Streets Here Alert

A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it. David Means

Old Car Past Few Worn Born Cassette Bear Perfect Point Perfect Moment River Put Drove Along Days Hear West West Point Hudson Mountain After Deck Across Moment Bridge Twisted

The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him. Dorothea Dix

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along. Douglas Brinkley

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is. Edgar Winter

Me Girl Live Bootleg Recorded River Songs Like Know Cry Different Title Clubs Things Album Compilation

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land. Ehud Barak

Soul Leader Penetrate Kind Promised Promised Land Arafat Staying Crossing River Advance He Masks Moses Reach Know Front Behind Wants Cannot Whether Land Who Agreement Palestinians

The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes. Ellen Burstyn

I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID. Eric Christian Olsen

Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'. Eric McCormack

Love Big Spring Avenue River Shop Little Awakening

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. Ernest Thompson Seton

Peace Better Understanding Monument About River Part Better Understanding Between Name Beaver Itself Effort Successful Company Bring

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something. Ethan Canin

Life You Light Word Miserable First Gesture Kind Telling Kind Word John Similar Something Writer River Had Know Occasionally Read Sort Nasty Short Sensation Certain Who Illuminates Ever

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note. Eugene Chadbourne

Love You Noise People Will Whatever River Like Make Terrible Occasionally Sound Hit Just Want Note Electric Play Rake

In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price. Eula Biss

You Gone Pay Down Background Says Immortality Something Price River Mythology Clear Environment Safe Dead She Styx Being Want Achilles Story Really Across

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new. Fanny Kemble

Nothing Out Find River New Been Again Nothing New Rowing

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works. Filippo Brunelleschi

Work Art Ocean Waters Secrets Must Compose Deliberate Construct Council River Devices Masters Experts Show Mechanical Works Flowing Needed

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. Frank Yerby

Water Half Strikes Broadened Sun Out Slowly About Above River Almost New Until Continent New Orleans Yellow Very Goes Golden Where Fifteen Mud Miles Sea Orleans

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino. Frederick Reines

First Astronomy Properties River Ray Attention Study Soon Began Site Experiments While Turned Gamma Series Savannah

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. G. Stanley Hall

Girl Down Broadening Open River Like Puberty Sea Floating

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. Gail Simmons

Love Property World Old Swimming Trees Corner Carolina Alligators River Moss Massive Lined South South Carolina Bluff Spanish Inn Spectacular

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