Quotes by Rivers I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know. Arundhati Roy rivers men country An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be. Arundhati Roy mountain-ranges rivers country May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun. Arundhati Roy air rivers long No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. Ashanti common-sense feet rivers Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout. Ashanti crocodiles stupidity rivers I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean. August Wilson ocean rivers years Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind. Augusten Burroughs rivers past moving The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in heaven, resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory. Death, to God's people, is but a ferry-boat. Augustus Toplady cities rivers people She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand distance rivers past Podor is a nice town. It's at the north of Senegal near the river. The town faces the other country that is Mauritania. It is a very cultural town, because at the beginning it was closest stop when you come from the Sahara and also when you come from the south to go to the north part of Africa. It was just at the middle, and so it's where a lot of cultures of West Africa come together. Baaba Maal nice rivers country Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. Barbara Kingsolver sea dream rivers We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth environmental rivers science Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. Baron de Montesquieu carried-away gentle rivers We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river. Barry Goldwater electrical-power rivers mean To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together. Barry Lopez nature rivers hands Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? Barry Lopez political technology rivers A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging. Barry Lyga drink feelings rivers Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks. Barry N. Malzberg coins survival rivers The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing. Barry S. Strauss dawn race rivers River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. Barten Holyday time rivers water «1234567891011»