238 River Quotes for You to Enjoy

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river. George Foreman

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. George Vancouver

Natural Water Ocean Changed Bay Some Through Coloured River Falling North Probable Low Land Sea Now Streams Consequence

Myself and some kids on our estate became obsessed with the creation of the ultimate go-kart. This ambition culminated in the creation of a six-man super-cart, which was essentially a plank of wood with four wheels, and a failed attempt to jump a tributary of the River Severn powered only by Rex, our dog. Greg Davies

Myself Dog Ambition Creation Our Kids Some Only Attempt River Failed Obsessed Powered Became Ultimate Jump Wheels Essentially Wood Estate Which Plank Four

The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River. Greg Grandin

What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places. Greg MacGillivray

World Water Some Colorado River Over Overused Polluted Happening Places

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

Today Nature Change Human Being First Single Changing Our Seven Valley Statistics Vary River Rivers Like Reach Deal Years Left Mountain Than Cell Same Any Done Human Being Wanting Wants Bodies Should Means Less Who Floor

Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time. Guy Finley

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute. Holly Black

Love Character You Madness Dangerously Mad Reliable Someone River Idea Like Buffy Sure Going Where Romantic Really

What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region. Ian Lustick

Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river. Ilaiyaraaja

Music Me Natural Purpose River Genuine Which Should Flow

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome. Isabella Bird

Long Distance Moonlight Some Above Prophet River Hours Looked Buildings Passed Leaving Dome Wall Handsome After Centre Tomb Four

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science. J. G. Ballard

Great Science Think Through River Part Well Science Fiction Years Modern Being Fiction Modern Science Literature English English Literature Imaginative

My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River. J. Michael Bishop

Youth Research Spent Pennsylvania Rural Born Area February River Forecast West West Bank York Bank Childhood Little Held Career Biomedical

I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia. Jaan Tallinn

It's true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River. Jack Schlossberg

Nothing Say East River True Like Tastes Quite They Say

Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion. Jakob Bohme

Great Water Drop Ocean River Maketh Just Cannot Avail Much

I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.' James Bay

Back River Like Huge Hold Moment Things

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free. Jane Birkin

Free Everyone City Trips River Invite Over Balloon Were Wander Mayor Boat Elderly Rides Homes Residential

This is a beautiful country. Each of us has a favorite river, a mountain, just a patch of sky for some of us. I want to use the law to make sure that the waters, the land, and the skies of this nation are protected. Janet Reno

If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do. Jason Moran

You Space Top OK Possibility Run Carved Entire Piano River He Opened Like Know Call Does Sound Hear Up Goes Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Lets Play Monk

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? Jay Kay

Work Beautiful Home Me Garden Gorgeous Mind Organic Exactly Hut Absolutely River Vegetable Trout Countryside House Got Yards Quite Being Where Which Acres

As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever. Jay Parini

Great Book Men Our Carry Inside Having River Unconscious Read Huge Itself Mice Forever Moves Literature Us Sea Works

Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth - you'll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code. Jay Samit

You Long First Before Pay Luck Willing Launch Must Stay Write River Consumers Betting Like Know Test Line Truly Lot Jumping Afloat Want Conversations Customers Depth Successful Product Your Belief Code Start Funds Need

I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we're looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we've agreed to speak again. Jay Weatherill

Speak Looking Healthy Think About River Share Looking Forward Make Sure Wanting Again Plan View Forward Agreed

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