Quotes by Rivers Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. Chanakya weapons rivers men I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture. Chang-Rae Lee village reading rivers I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. Charles Baudelaire blue yellow rivers When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. Charles Bukowski turds fame rivers Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination. Charles Caleb Colton source ocean rivers Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce. Charles Clover swimming rivers moving It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone. Charles Dudley Warner fishing sea rivers Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past. Charles Kellogg mountain rivers past I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers. Charles Kuralt memorable rivers thinking America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it. Charles Kuralt stories rivers america Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers. Charles Kuralt rivers running people When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder. Charles Lyell rivers numbers science Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world. Charles Mackay mother rain rivers Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. Charles Schumer path rivers way American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us. Charley Reese rivers doors thinking Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. Charlotte Bronte mountain self rivers There are 400 to 500 people north of the Cannonball River in the contested zone, in the treaty zone, in the place where, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we are not supposed to be. And they are going to stand their ground. Chase Iron Eyes army rivers people The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. Chen Shui-bian curves ocean rivers We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them. Chief Joseph mountain suits rivers You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. Chief Joseph rivers running men «678910111213141516»