Quotes by Rivers I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again! Amy Hempel lightning dark rivers I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too. Amy Schumer passed-away mets rivers What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside. Amy Tan color rivers wind What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols. Anatole France climbing bridges rivers the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers. Anaximenes of Miletus clouds rivers wind If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. Anchee Min want opportunity rivers The great river follows its own course before joining the vast sea. Likewise, the soul follows equally varied routes and passes through different stages, receiving here and there tributaries of knowledge, strengthening its personality and perfecting its qualities before reaching the Ocean of Eternal Wisdom. Andre Luiz Moreira ocean sea rivers . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all. Andrew Lang fishing sea rivers I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time. Angeles Arrien real rivers thinking Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood? Anita Desai locks rivers moving You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. Ann Patchett jumping-in jumping rivers Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. Ann Rutherford brother rivers people When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it Ann Zwinger growing growing-up rivers This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet. Anna Akhmatova age rivers fall When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. Anna Brownell Jameson childhood sea rivers My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Anne Bradstreet famous-love rivers love-is Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner. Anne Lamott grief parent rivers Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air. Anne Morrow Lindbergh air rivers world Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. Annie Dillard air rivers fall The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what is there. Annie Dillard ecuador spectacular rivers «1234567891011»